Ponderosa Ranch entrepreneur David Duffield in 2004. In September 2004 he closed the Ponderosa "indefinitely". Ponderosa Ranch The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the popular 1960s television western "Bonanza", which housed the affluent land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family. The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1967 until 2004. Portions of the last five seasons of the TV series and three TV movies were also filmed at that location. The Ponderosa was the fictional setting for "Bonanza". According to the 9th episode ("Mr. Henry Comstock") in the first season, it was a thousand-square mile
Bonanza Gift Shop Casino and Money Tree Casino. It was the "Las Vegas Review-Journal"'s online readers pick for "Best Gift Shop" in 2006. In 2016, the property was sold for $50 million to Haim Gabay, who had been operating the store as a tenant for a year. The shop was featured on the PBS show "Going Places". This store features in the 2016 Nicolas Cage movie "The Trust". Bonanza Gift Shop Bonanza Gift Shop is a landmark located on the Las Vegas Strip between the SLS Las Vegas and the Stratosphere Las Vegas. It is billed as the "World's Largest Gift Shop" with