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Which classic theme park is for you, a Southeast Portland gem with carnival games and a roller rink, or a storybook village just south of Salem?

From the Peter Iredale wreckage near Fort Stevens to the Shoe Tree near Mitchell, seek these out on your next road trip—or just the next time you're in downtown Portland.

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Enchanted Forest Has Canceled Its Reopening Following “Comments and Threats” About Mask Requirements for Unvaccinated Visitors Following state guidelines, the park had announced that visitors would be required to wear masks, unless they chose to show their vaccine card and ID. Enchanted Forest. (Henry Cromett) Updated May 18 at 1:16 PM In less than 24 hours, a landmark Oregon amusement park has gone from selling out ti...

JENNIFER MOODY For Mid-Valley Live TURNER — The father had lost his little boy at age 5. Thirteen years later, he was still searching for a place to preserve his son’s memory forever. He found it, he told Susan Vaslev, in the bricks Enchanted Forest is offering for purchase to help the amusement park survive the COVID-19 shutdown and repair the damage from February’s ice storm. “I’ve been looking for the right place to put his name ever since, and this is it,” he wrote. For him, and for the thousands of others who have told Vaslev how much her fami...

Enchanted Forest Works to Recover from COVID & Ice April 18, 2021 A devastating ice storm swept through much of the Willamette Valley the night of Friday, February 12. The area around Salem was hit particularly hard – hundreds of thousands of people were without power, and trees that had stood tall for decades were uprooted –crashing into houses and cars. Not many were spared the damage, not even Oregon’s beloved Enchanted Forest.   It was the morning of February 13 when Enchanted Forest Co-Manager Susan Vaslev’s phone rang, notifying her that the sprinkler system had gone off at th...