The park is Morgan’s Wonderland, located in San Antonio, Texas. It’s designed to be an amusement park of “total inclusion,” where anyone, regardless of any special needs they might have. According to Hartman itself: To make that dream come true, it took $35 million, raised by Hartman himself and with input from an array of doctors, engineers, and architects, all to make sure that no child would ever feel excluded from Morgan’s Wonderland. Construction began in 2007 and took three years to complete, and now The Gordon Hartman Family Foundation has also been able to add a $17 million water park to the complex, called Morgan’s Inspiration Island. Between Morgan’s Wonderland and Morgan’s Inspiration Island, the parks’ million-plus guests since it opened in 2010 can enjoy a train, Ferris wheel, and merry-go-round, all built to be fully accessible, in addition to numerous other rides and attractions. Some on the autism spectrum can be categorized as flight risks, so geo-location wristbands are provided for guests as well. Hartman told the magazine that Morgan’s Wonderland operates at a loss of about a million dollars a year and depends on donations to keep running, thanks in part to its policy of free admission for any guest with special needs.
