657 Comments for The Enchanted Forest

This photo is truly awesome.

this pic is awesome, it's like being read the fairy tale all over again

THIS IS THE BEST PIX I SEEN YET ALL YOU NEED NOW IS A LOAD OF MUSHROOMS AND A BIT OF TANGERINE DREAM....SORTED

Looks like old tortureroom.All those bonez...

Looking these with music by Morrissey makes them both feeling to connented together...not any sense but ..LOL

That's something you don't see every day!! A MONSTER greenhouse

this pic is fantastic!

wow motts, u r a good looking guy! whoooohoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

wow i grew up in jersey and used to drive past that place when i was a little kid with my parents on our way south for summers and i used to beg my folks endlessly to go there and had the pleasure of getting 2 or 3 trips there in the early 80's. that place was soooo fun for a little kid and seeing in disrepair is a stramge mixture of reverie and sadness but i thank you again motts for getting beautiful photos of a once grand place to be for a kid.

Your pictures are amazing.

I went to EF for my 6th Birthday. back in July 1968. I remember it like it was ......well... okay not like yesterday but I do have wonderful memories. I was blindfolded as a surprise when taken there and never really past that way again because we moved from Maryland a few years later to Virginia. I happened past there one day when I was driving somewhere and saw the sign but was on duty and could not stop. Wish I had stopped. I am glad someone is restoring it. I didn't know it was closed. Which might be why when my son was six and wanted to take him there I couldn't get a number for it because it was closed in the 90's. I have 8mm movies from my birthday party at.... I can't remember where they did it but will now have to get that movie out to look.

Thank you Clark Farm. I know I will visit in the future. I want you to know that this patron appreciates your efforts.

"Where's Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, and John Waters when you need them?"

I love the fog in this picture, I scan see sick-happy people enjoying the farie tale.

I have read that the bathrooms at the EF were segregated at first, but you are right, it was one of the first parks to be non-segregated for it's time. When King Cole welcomed all through that entrance, he really did mean one and all.
I saw a blog sight where a woman remembers that as a child for a school trip, was going to an amusement park in that area. The class was told that three of them would not be going, but would go to the EF. The child questioned this with her father, and he explained it was because of their color. She found the reason quite ignorant. It shaped her personality at such an early age. I'm sure that she was not the only child to question the reasons for segregation at those times. To rebel from its beliefs and to question why. Not only did this park inspire children to read, it is very possible that the original owners who created the EF, had no idea that it might also become the first lesson that taught children what segregation and non-segregation meant. The original owners sold it to someone who promised to keep it running. That promise was broken. Today is the results of that first agreement. Businesses have taken over much of the land where the EF once stood. Alice's tunnel caving in, destroyed forever and much more. The park has been stripped clean of it's figures. The company who owns it now, is only interested in the retail shops. Due to ownership, vandalism,and unsafe property, Kimco, the currant owners, have a no trespassing sign up, and have been kind enough to let Clark's Elioak Farm, relocate everything they can at the farm's expense. http://www.clarklandfa...CHANTED%20FOREST.htm. They hope to recreate over time many of the figures that have been stolen, sold, or destroyed. To relocate whatever structures they can afford. Photographs and videos of people spending time at the Enchanted Forest while it was open, is what is helping the farm with it's artists and volunteers, keep a little bit of the EF alive. Please consider letting the farm copy your photos and/or videos, so that a new generation can enjoy the creativity that the EF was known for.

i just want to thank you for sharing all your picture's. i sure do love the pass and what they were all about. it's people like you that keeps people like me intrested. thank you so much.