Lake

What a captivating image. The haze served you well on this visit Motts. Beautiful!

so breathtaking and haunting

These photos are amazing! My grandparents used to take me and my siblings and cousins here as little kids and I have so many memories of the place. I have pictures at home too! So it's interesting to see how it looks now. I wish it were still open!

Such an eerie feel to this picture. You are quite the photographer.

This has to be my favorite from this gallery. Perfect angle & mystery.

I grew up in Baltimore, MD. I remember going there in the 60's as a child on a 2nd grade field trip. I don't remember much about the trip just that I had a blast when I was there and remember not wanting to ever leave this park again. Being gone from Baltimore since the late 80's now I had no idea that this had happened to this wonderful childhood park. What a shame this is.

I was always scared of everything as a child. I remember going to the Enchanted Forest as a kid when we lived in Baltimore. I'm sure it contributed to my fears. Pathetic I know. I also remember taking my daughter there in and taking a ride on a boat. They had some kind of mechanical alligator that would come out of the water. The water was so low I could see the pully mechanism. I really thought they would have torn this place down and built something on it by now. Very lovely photos though.

I bet this place was scary even when it was open. Hardly Six Flags is it? :-)

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.

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!

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!

This looks like one of those pictures that seems like it should have a little boy sitting on the dock with a fishing pole and his dog beside him.

there is a place right outside of atlantic city called story book land that was opened about the same time as this was and they are still open

RBVannacutt~ I think that Motts last photo on here titled "Overgrown", is what used to be known as Huck Finn's fishing shack in the EF. The EF did have a figure of Huck Finn fishing up on a rock and people could get fishing poles and fish in this water too. I'm not too sure though if the shack was near the lake here or another part of water in the EF.

Calling Jason Vorhees ....

OMG, this is amazing, clearly my favorite picture (so far) in this gallery

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

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

rode the boat....cried

how peaceful, and mysterious

I think the hazy, dream-like quality of this photograph is simply beautiful. This just might be my favourite from this gallery...

I can remember feeding ducks here (at least I think it was here!).

ye thats cool

WoW I remember all of these pictures as if I were a child again Little toot use to ride around that lake and on top of the little mountian that is in the lake you would get dropped off there climb it and use a twisting sliding board to get back down I have pictures of this on sunny days from 1968 , this photo is Surreal to me!

that looks soooooooooo creepy like somethings gonna jump outta the still n get ya!!

this one has to be my favorite of this album

very eerie

As an adult there is always one place that you distinctfully remember as you were a child... This place is my childhood favorite memory. My family took my sister and I there all the time. I still have a picture of my sitting in the chair that was a bear... and I remember on the lake there was a whale ... I remember that it would talk to you. Like the story jonah and the whale. This was the best childhood park ever.

It is sad that today's generation of children will never know these wonderful places like Enchanted Forest and Rocky Point Park. These parks had a lot of charm. Too bad they are just a memory......

But ALL of the Enchanted Forest has not been forgotten!
Many of the original figures and structures were saved and or given to Clark's Elioak Farm, which is just down the road from this original Enchanted Forest!

The farm has just opened for their new season!
This year they are VERY proud to be able to unveil to the public the original Little Toot boat, Humpty Dumpty, the Merry Miller's House, and Willie the whale!
While Willie was being relocated he broke apart.
But! His original frame was saved as well as his tail and tongue.
A local artist used these pieces to recreate a replica of him.
He still needs to be painted, but from what I hear he looks wonderful!

Papa Bear that you remember sitting in is at the farm, as well as the three bears cottage, the old woman's shoe/slide, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and many other EF favorites.
No, it wasn't possible for it to reopen on it's original soil, but this IS the next best thing! : )

Great picture! Eerie yet beautiful.

Motts I love this picture. You have got such a great talent.

Love this location, and this shot is my favorite of the lot.

WOW!!! I had no idea until today that the park was closed. I looked it up to take my 1yr old and 8month old to the park for the spring and this is what i found. Its so sad because i have so many very very great memories of school trips during the 70's to the park i wish there were something i could do to save the park.

Chinarose~
This original location is no longer open.
But just a few miles down the road from it, Clark's Elioak Farm have tried to save and relocate whatever they can.
(Though not the castle in this gallery.
It is falling apart and now quite unsafe.)
But the farm NOW has the original Old Woman's Shoe which was also a slide.
As well as the original smaller structures like the Merry Miller's house, the 3 bears cottage, and the little pig's brick house, etc..
Also, the original figures like Snow White, Robin Hood, and others.

Clark's Elioak Farm opens their gates on April 1st for their new 2008 season!
And many new figures will have been added to the attractions!
Be sure to check it out!

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh real weird in this photo check my comment on my last photo i saw the same ghost

last time i was here the ' mother goose' boats were still near the lake. i always thought they were a bit creepy.

Not sure if is the same angle, but still cool to look at before and after shots:

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uh creepy ... especially with all the fog.

OOO.....Creepy.

I think I see a ghost ship coming out of Mt. Vesuvius! see those two poles sticking out of the lake? ooooooooooh, freaky! I wonder what they are doing sticking out of the water!

I am a photographer myself, and these are the shots that I wish I could get away ad take. The are incredible and portray lost and innocent world that should have never been lt go of. ( also just a weird note. . . sorta males me think of he dock that the white Gullships would sail from in Jr.r. Tolkeins Lord of th ing series. The ships that the elves took when leaving for the grey havens. . . . .. okay maybe its just me . ..)

Even the trees are taking a rest....I like how they are leaning toward the water.