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Enchanted Forest A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon
The park is divided into various districts. Storybook Lane has attractions inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Also featured are the English Village and its lighted fountain show, the Tofteville Mining Town, and a food service court featuring Bavarian architecture. [from wikipedia]
Alice Animals Carnival Crooked Man Enchanted Forest Railroad Entrance Facilities Gift Shop Irish Pub Music Painless Dentist Parking Paths Plants Radio Controlled Boats Rides Signage Story Figures Story The Princess And The Pea Tofteville
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Alice, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. [from wikipedia]

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Animals, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Enchanted Forest was inhabited by several kinds of animals. Most of them were fake, and used totell stories or to help establish a mood.

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Carnival, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

The Carnival portion of the Enchanted Forest was up high on a hill. The rides required tickets that could be purchased from a booth inside the carnival.

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Crooked Man, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house. [from wikipedia]

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Entrance, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Entrance generally refers to the place of entering like a gate or door, or the permission to do so. [from wikipedia]

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Facilities, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

No theme park is complete without support facilities such as food and drink, bathrooms, drinking fountains and the like.

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Story Figures, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

The Enchanted Forest was based on the depiction of children's classic stories and the figures that appear in them.Most characters were produced by carved wood, cast concrete, plaster, and paper mâché.

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Gift Shop, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

A gift shop or Souvenir gift shop is a store primarily selling souvenirs relating to a particular topic or theme. The items sold often include coffee mugs, stuffed animals, t-shirts, postcards, handmade collections and other souvenirs. Gift shops are normally found in areas visited by many tourists. [from wikipedia]

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Irish Pub Music, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st century, despite globalising cultural forces. In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music influences from Britain and the United States, Irish traditional music has kept many of its elements and has itself influenced many forms of music, such as country and roots music in the USA, which in turn have had some influence on modern rock music. [from wikipedia]

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Painless Dentist, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

An exhibit in Tofteville, the wildest little old town in the west, a recreated old west town's street in Enchanted Forest.The town is also know as the Tofteville Mining Town.

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Parking, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Enchanted Forest is 7 Miles South of Salem, Oregon off I-5. Take exit 248 (Delaney St. Truner),turn right on Enchanted Way and park in their copious parking lot. There is no way to get to the park using public transportation.

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Paths, Through Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Public footpaths are rights of way originally created by people walking across the land to work, market, the next village, church, and school, this includes Mass paths and Corpse roads. Some footpaths were also created by those undertaking a pilgrimage. Examples of the latter are The Pilgrim's Way in England and Pilgrim's Route (St. Olav's Way or the Old Kings' Road) in Norway. Some landowners allow access over their land without dedicating a right of way. These permissive paths are often indistinguishable from normal paths, but they are usually subject to restrictions. Such paths are often closed at least once a year, so that a permanent right of way cannot be established in law. [from wikipedia]

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Plants, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Plants are one of the two groups into which all living things were traditionally divided; the other is animals. The division goes back at least as far as Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE), who distinguished between plants, which generally do not move, and animals, which often are mobile to catch their food. [from wikipedia]

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Radio Controlled Boats, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

A radio-controlled boat is a boat controlled remotely with radio control equipment.Electric sport boats are the most common type of boat amongst casual hobbyists. Hobby-quality boat speed generally start at around 20 mph and go up from there, and can be just as fast or faster than their internal-combustion counterparts, with the latest in lithium polymer and brushless motor technology. [from wikipedia]

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Enchanted Forest Railroad, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

The Enchanted Forest Railroad was a brightly colored, kid-sized train that could also accomodate modest sized adults.It was laid out in a set of two small loops and was run by a man outside the train.

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Rides, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

The park offered rides for the very young kids and well as rides for the older kids and adults.

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Signage, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message to a specific group, usually for the purpose of marketing or a kind of advocacy. Signs are any kind of visual graphics created to display information to a particular audience. [from wikipedia]

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Story, Of Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both. Along with exposition, argumentation, and description, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. [from wikipedia]

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The Princess And The Pea, At The Theater, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

A literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity. [from wikipedia]

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Tofteville, In Enchanted Forest, A Children's Theme Park In Turner, Oregon

A sign read, "Welcome to Tofteville Wildest little old town in the west."Tofteville is an old mining town complete with the Fort Fearless.


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