Maybe you’ll even get right back in line for a second go-round.
It’s an absolute blast, and the surprising back and forth from log ride to roller coaster to log ride will leave everyone laughing and cheering. It’s so fun and unexpected!Īs soon as the coaster element is over, you realize you are now at the top of the biggest hill on the ride, which suddenly switched back into a log ride, and down it goes! Right into the big splash that one hopes for in a log flume. It turns out our log has roller coaster wheels underneath! This is not the norm on log flumes! It travels up a small lift hill on the way to an awesome, if relatively mild, roller coaster drop. A roller coaster track in the middle of the ride!. The standard floating and bumping into the walls is all present, and you will have the same feelings you’ve had on every other log ride you’ve ever been on for most of the ride.Īnd then you see it. You pile into a hollowed-out log with your group and head up the lift. The Timber Mountain Log Ride sounds like a log flume- and it is- but there is a hidden aspect of this one that makes it a truly unique experience. This is also the area where you will find the first of the one-of-a-kind roller coasters that can be found at Enchanted Forest. It’s really pretty good! The Timber Mountain Log Ride You will get to hear a little bit of this in the video we are linking to this blog. This one has the feel of Frontier Town in Disney World but once again has unique aspects that can’t be found anywhere else.Īrriving in Tofteville Western Town, you are greeted with performances by the staff playing original country music that the Tofte family themselves wrote. The next land you will run into after Storybook Lane is Western Town, or as it’s named, Tofteville. Even my older kid took delight in the fun structures! Tofteville Alice In Wonderland and the Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe are two more you shouldn’t miss on the paths. There are several opportunities to climb, slide and play within the display scenes, which is limitlessly more fun than just viewing them, as beautiful as they are. At one point, children can even walk into an enormous witch’s mouth and ascend up a winding staircase before gliding down a tunnel through her hair. Numerous interactive displays of our favorite nursery rhyme characters are laid out on a well-kept winding path through the deep forest. Every visit begins with Storybook Lane, where Roger Tofte’s artistic abilities show up, as he built most of this area by hand. Storybook LaneĮnchanted Forest is broken up into sections or lands. What they found was nothing short of an incredible feat. The park was known as Idiot Hill by the local townspeople.įast forward 10 years later, in 1971, Enchanted Forest opened and even saw a visit from the Walt Disney Company, who showed up to check out what this man was putting together in the hills of western Oregon. In the beautiful Salem, Oregon mountains lies a hidden oasis for the imagination.īuilt by one man with his wife and 4 young children, Roger Tofte overcame numerous obstacles to create his dream over many years, including extreme ridicule. Just about 1.5 hours from Portland, Oregon is a wonderful gem of a park named Enchanted Forest. Hood SkiBowl, Oaks Amusement Park with its year-round historic roller skating rink, thrill rides, and mini-golf, and of course, we can’t forget water parks like North Clackamas Aquatic Park with its numerous pools and water slides. I am going to focus on a few theme parks in Oregon that provided us intense family fun: Enchanted Forest with its unique Western Town, Ice Mountain Bobsled roller coaster and Big Timber Mountain Log Ride, the alpine slide and Mt. The beauty of the national parks, historic sites, the cool city of Portland and the awesomeness of Bend has won our hearts. But did you know there are a few hidden gems when it comes to amusement parks in Oregon? Oregon is about as good as a destination gets when traveling the United States.
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