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I do not know the relationship or the time frame but StoryLand Park in this area was located here also.

Fairy Tale Forest - Location: 140 Oak Ridge Road (off Route 23) Oak Ridge (West Milford Township), NJ 07438 Telephone: 973 697-5656 or 2956 Hours: Sep 23-Oct 28 11am-5pm on Weekends June 15 through Sep 3: 11am to 5pm closed Mondays & Holidays May 27 through June 15 Sat & Sun 11am -5pm Admission:Adults $7, Children $6, under 2 Free Sat & Sun: Adults $8 Children $7, under 2 Free Gate closes 1 hour before closing time. No Credit Cards Internet: www.fairytaleforest.com

Recently renovated and renamed, Diggity's Fairy Tale Forest offers an enchanted forest of scenes from fairy tales, with storytelling and rides and Carousel.ï¿½ Special seasonal events are held to celebrate Easter, Halloween and Christmas.ï¿½ They may close for the day if it rains in the morning so be sure to call ahead if the weather is questionable.

Fairy Tale Forest

Along small highways in the northeast lurks the detritus of less demanding times: amusement parks so quiet and simple that they would never have been financed (much less built) after the early 1960s.

One is Fairy Tale Forest, just off Route 23 in Oak Ridge, NJ. Built in 1957, it exists in its own special warp on the time-space continuum. Don't go looking for rides, high excitement or otherwise; there are only two, and they're designed for toddlers.

Instead, the place is a wooded showcase of miniature buildings featuring tableaux of well-known tales (Snow White, Rapunzel, the Three Little Pigs and their ilk) and a lot of inscrutable choices as well. The circus exhibit, for example, features a ringmaster who most resembles Tony Curtis in 'Spartacus.' Eyelashes and all.

Everything's built at kid level, of course, so overgrown children have to squat or bend to peer into windows.

Signs are posted high, though, and they're a continuing source of delight, for reasons the painter....

August 2004: Fairy Tale Forest has closed, part of the property converted into a self-storage business. The entrance and some of the buildings remain visible.