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Magic lives on at the Enchanted Forest

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 by GetawayBC.com

BC's tallest tree house is just one of the magical creations at the Enchanted Forest near Revelstoke. David F. Rooney/Times Review
The Enchanted Forest. For decades it has tantalized families as they whizzed along the Trans-Canada Highway and it’s not hard to see why.

The tourist attraction, begun by Doris and Ernest Needham in the late 1950s and opened to the public after the TCH was completed, is a lovingly created and thoroughly magical place that offers visitors a nature walk through 800-year-old cedars and and a childhood fantasy of story-book characters and fairy-tale settings.

Created by various artists the Enchanted Forest is inhabited by 350 handmade, child-sized figurines that include everything from the Three Little Pigs and Hansel and Gretl to Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Old Mother Hubbard and Little Red Riding Hood. There are elves, and witches – even a zombie in a dungeon – dwarves, woodland creatures, a stork soaring through the trees with a little bundle of joy in his beak and even a giant climbing down a tree.

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