Unfortunately the Munster Mansion was closed for lack of rrrrrrrrrrrrr strike but hey we were looking for the view and nothing else. A rather romantic place in the evenings and family day. Very nice view to take pictures and have good memories. Go for it It’s a Frenchy telling you.
SOUPERMAN B.
Tu valoración: 4 Fullerton, CA
Cool spot to check out. Worth the drive off the main highway.
Ryan W.
Tu valoración: 4 Austin, TX
When I was a kid growing up in Dallas, we had a ranch a little south of downtown. On weekends, we would drive to Waxahachie from time to time to catch a movie or whatever else. After my father sold the ranch, Waxahachie became nothing more than a sign that I would pass on my drives to and from Dallas and Austin. That was until a few years ago when my father insisted that we stop to see the ‘Munster Mansion’, a private residence created and owned by the McKee family, on our trek up to Dallas. You see, my father is all about roadside attractions. He and my mother packed up one of their cars a few years ago and drove to 48 states — they flew to Hawaii and Alaska. On this trip, they traveled on backroads and sought out local flavor everywhere they went. It was an interesting trip that has been well documented online and his desire to stop here was hardly a surprise to me. Of course, I was in! We were almost to Big D when pulled off I-35 in Waxahachie(pronounced walks-a-hatch-eee) and started driving around in search of 1313 Mockingbird Lane. My father had jotted down the address before we hit the road. The GPS wasn’t picking it up. The map was no help. Where is this address located? Obviously, we were not Munster’s fans because that was the actual address on the show. So, we started asking people. First, it was a woman walking with her child. She was hispanic. Either she didn’t understand us or she found our question so outlandish that she didn’t know what to say to the car full of people asking for the Munster Mansion. We drove on. Next, it was the friendly couple that acknowledged the existence of the unusual family home, but couldn’t tell us how to find it. Finally, it was the uniformed city worker who we approached that was able to give us directions, explaining that it is rather difficult to find. Oh boy, a treasure hunt! After driving for about 10 minutes and getting lost in a neighborhood near the Munster Mansion, we were heading back out to the highway to continue our search. Then all of the sudden, the city worker appeared in his truck! He figured we were lost and had come to guide us in the rest of the way… what a nice guy! He did just that. Standing in from of the Munster Mansion is pretty cool. It looks as it should, only it has kids toys, cars and other things laying around it indicating that somebody does actually live there. I was impressed… for a minute. Then, it was time to go. Just like another review I wrote recently, I felt like I was in National Lampoons Vacation. This time, it was the scene with Chevy Chase and the fam at the Grand Canyon where he looks out briefly at the vast canyon, nods his head and says, «Lets go». Sadly, they do not give tours or do anything special for their guests other than the annual Halloween event they talk about on the website. They actually ask that guests stay off of the property to take photos and what not. Sounds fair to me, but what a shame. I wanted to tour the house, buy a snowcone, get a t-shirt from a clown, ride the train, smash a penny, get a glow-in-the-dark necklace and all the other things that one expects to do when visiting a tourist attraction in the USA. They didn’t even have a guest list or a donation box for me to drop my business card in. :) At the end of the day, this is a neat place to see if you like to hunt around to find something with very little reward. I actually give an extra star for that because looking for it is just as much fun as actually finding it. Maybe they will do something more with it one day. You never know. Until then, I have my photos to prove that I visited, which is good enough for me. I certainly rate this higher than our adventure to find the David Koresh compound. Talk about a hunt with very little reward… Happy hunting!
