657 Comments for The Enchanted Forest

Serene!A place to allow the imagination to relax and float!I love it!

This shot is a once in a lifetime finale!Seeing it from Jilly's on the hill,you can see how far the mountain has gotten to crumbling!But how wild it looks in this photo!

OOPS!My mistake!Tom Sawyer's Pond is around the corner of this photo,on the far left!
My apologies!

The bridge in this picture was of Tom Sawyers' Fishing Pond,the "bridge "is a rock where a figure of Tom Sawyer sat on top of the rock with water flowing out of the rock into the pond..a water fountain,to be exact!

This shot of the lake is so serene,peaceful and calming!So beautful!I could sit on that pier for hours and meditate,let my imagination soar!

A slight pull on the steering wheel of child-rearing could change the direction of childhood exposure
to storybook influence while enriching their young minds with the use of imagination-building without interfering with needed computer training!

Hey...may have been boring, but the picture isn't. I love this shot!

You're right, it defiately was not six flags. : ) But that was what made it different from the rest. When the EF opened in 1955 it's purpose was to inspire children to read or want to learn how. It told its stories of fairy and rhyme through elaborate dioramas and amazing structures. Six Flags has its place, but so did/does the EF. It encouraged a child to use their imagination at an early age. Sometimes that gets lost in todays world with kids having alot of their entertainment served up on a platter full of video games and cable.

Sigh . . . . . . .

I agree with Rich this is not art at all,just the work of some little wannabe eminem.It is abit like Pennhurst's Candy Cane Dungeon the only difference being the Enchanted Forest was for the most part a happy place whereas Pennhurst never was.

I am honored at the compliment, rich. I am a purist, and I have told people that before. So, you are absolutely correct.

I'm not quite such a purist as Twug (though I understand her dislike of this stuff) in that I don't consider all graffiti to be unattractive and without merit. Some 'urban art' undoubtedly requires considerable graphical ability. However there is definitely a time and a place for it, and this is not it, especially as the work itself is of the crudest, ugliest type. As someone else said, no doubt scrawled by some wannabe gangsta (read bored white middle-class kid trying to impress his pals....)

This room reminds me of the 'candy cane dungeon' at Pennhurst and although it's naturally lit, it's almost as creepy...

Even if some graffiti could be considered art that surely isn't.Though it does paint the huge contrast of the innocence this place once had and how time has defiled it.Sad,really sad.Alot like life really,how beautiful and innocent it begins but in the end it is ugly and tainted.

I give props to all those that are restoring these structures, I've seen the main website and seen some of the transformations which is really cool. I never went to the Enchanted Forest but I did go somewhere like it about the same time this place closed - it was in Wisconsin Dells and was probably called something like "Storybook Land." They had a lot of similar things, so its really neat to see that this is being restored.

Well,the ones who did this didn't stop there!That wasn't good enough for them!They kept going,on to other structures as The 3 Little Pigs' Brick House,defacing the roof over the doorway!It takes away from the childhood innocense while the fools who did it just care to laugh and have fun at others' expense while walking away and giving the finger!Their attitude;our fun had,your problem now !
I'm an airbrush artist who assisted in relocating and restoring the pieces..there IS no art in this!Only abuse and foul play!