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Surrounded by the same stately trees for which it was named, The Oaks, in Portland, Oregon in 2005 will celebrate its 100th consecutive year of operation, making it one of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in America. Built by the Oregon Water Power and Navigation Company, the park opened its gates on May 30, 1905 to Portlanders who arrived by foot and on horseback, in automobiles and by boat from the Willamette River. In keeping with the design of other "Trolley Parks" across the country, most of its visitors disembarked from trolley cars which ran along the Portland-to-Oregon City tracks forming the eastern boundary of the park. Oregon > Portland > Attractions

Founded in 1944, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is a world-class tourist attraction and educational resource that puts the "WOW!" in science for the kid in each of us. Five exhibit halls and eight science labs offer 219,000 square feet of brain-powered fun through hundreds of interactive exhibits and hands-on demonstrations. OMSI's multi-attraction complex features a big screen theater, the Northwest's largest planetarium, and the USS Blueback, the last fast-attack, diesel-powered submarine built by the U.S. Navy. Oregon > Portland > Attractions

Create wonderful memories with your children (or grandchildren) while stretching their minds and imaginations! Travel up a familiar riverfront. Excavate a construction site, build, dig and signal to your friends. Kids can do all this and more in Build, Climb and Construct! This exhibit updates the popular Have a Ball, Construct, and Vroom Room areas, and simulates a bustling riverfront complete with construction site and city scenes. The redesigned area is rich with play spaces and materials: Kids can dig and burrow in the dig pit; build imaginative structures using pipes, blocks and pegboards, experiment with air and velocity using imaginative air tubes and conveyor belts, and explore nooks and crannies filled with surprises like mirrors, magnets and hidden tunnels. Oregon > Portland > Attractions

The 3D Center of Art and Photography, a non-profit museum/gallery, features the best in antique and contemporary 3D imagery. The Center houses everything from antique stereocards to View Master, contemporary 3D photography, lenticulars, anaglyphs, and computer generated 3D art. Oregon > Portland > Attractions

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Welcome to River & Roses Gallery featuring the current and sold-out fine art work by the Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade. Thomas Kinkade is the America's most collected living artist. His world of beauty, peace and hope spreads his message of inspiration through art. Says the artist, "Art can show us ways to lead a simpler, richer, more satisfying life." Oregon > Salem > Attractions

You can see what is going on at the aquarium anytime night or day. Visit with some super-cool sharks, watch rays glide by, or experience the graceful movements of the Oregon Moon Jelly ... right from the comfort of your chair. The Aquarium is home to several species of fish, sharks, birds, jellies and marine mammals. For example, the Aquarium is home to four species of Oregon seabirds and one shore bird species. While these species maintain robust populations of the Oregon coast, they are seldom seen. Seabirds live on the open sea except during the breeding season, when they come to remote rookeries for a brief summer season. The black oystercatcher, a shore bird, keeps to remote rocky beaches where human contact is rare. Oregon > Newport > Attractions

Sun Mountain Fun Center provides interactive fun for all ages in a clean safe and friendly environment. Experience hours of family fun indoors and out at this amazing 5 1/2 acre facility. Play bowling, 18 hole mini-golf, water wars, billiards, go-karts, batting cages and many other. And forget about the whole world! Oregon > Bend > Attractions

The Pine Mountain Observatory is located 26 miles SE of Bend Oregon. It is at an elevation of 6500 feet. Telescopes of aperture 15, 24 and 32-inches are there. The facility is operated by the University of Oregon Physics Department. In addition, a group of amateur astronomers, called the Friends of Pine Mountain Observatory , helps to operate the Summer visitors season. The Prime Focus of the 32-inch telescope now has a 1024x1024 thinned, rear illuminated, blue-sensitive CCD camera which has a field size of approximately 36x36 arcminutes. So you just can't imagine what you will see from our observatory and you have only one thing to do - to come and just see it! Oregon > Bend > Attractions

Founded in 1983 as the non-profit Portland Carousel Museum, the International Museum of Carousel Art has been the dream and passion of Oregon residents Duane and Carol Perron. Starting in the mid 1970's with Carol's love of animals and wish to have "just one carousel horse", the Perron's have built a small private collection into the largest, most comprehensive collection of carousels and carousel art in the world. The Perron Family Collection now numbers in the hundreds of carousel animals, rare artifacts, and more than a dozen complete carousels. If you ask the Perron's "why carousels?", they would tell you how the carvers put magic into each carousel animal. A little of that magic is shared with each person who admires them and each child, of any age, who rides on them. Oregon > Hood River > Attractions

American Trails opened in 1991 by the owner David Bobb. David brings twenty years experience in the Native Arts field along with a diverse background including; a Masters Degree from Berkeley in Landscape Architecture; Ten years of Historic Restoration Contracting; Co-founder of the Sacramento River Preservation Trust; and currently, among other things, he is a Board member at the Center for the Study of First Americans at OSU in Corvallis Oregon. Oregon > Ashland > Attractions