Qualla: Pixieland https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pixieland https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon Pixieland: Introduction https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon/ Governor Tom McCall stood at the entrance and dedicated Pixieland to "the families of Oregon." It was June 28, 1969. More than $800,000 had been invested, two public stock offerings had been sold, and two former Disneyland employees had been hired to bring the magic. The park lasted four years. By 1974, Pixieland was bankrupt, and a headline in the Oregon Journal captured the aftermath with grim poetry: "Pixieland Dream Goes 'Poof!'" What remains today, on 57 acres near Otis Junction along the Oregon Coast, is not a theme park but a restored tidal marsh -- the land quietly reclaiming the estuary that the fairy tale briefly interrupted.

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]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/p/b/pixieland-oregon-wp/c0pb-pixieland-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pixieland: The Pixie Kitchen Connection https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon/ The dream began with a restaurant. Pixie Kitchen opened in nearby Lincoln City in 1948, serving what its slogan called "Heavenly Food on the Oregon Coast." By the 1960s, it had become a local institution -- the kind of place families associated with beach vacations and coastal ch...

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]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/p/b/pixieland-oregon-wp/c0pb-pixieland-the-pixie-kitchen-connection.mp3 0:06 2 full Pixieland: Little Toot and the Blue Bell Opera House https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon/ When Pixieland opened, it offered the kind of attractions that small regional parks relied on in the late 1960s. A narrow-gauge train called Little Toot -- later renamed Little Pixie -- circled the grounds. A log flume provided the requisite splash. The Blue Bell Opera House stag...

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]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/p/b/pixieland-oregon-wp/c0pb-pixieland-little-toot-and-the-blue-bell-opera-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Pixieland: The Dream Goes Poof https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon/ Bankruptcy came in 1974. The rides were sold off, and two of them -- the Little Pixie train, renamed Merriweather, and the log flume -- found second lives at Lagoon amusement park in Utah, where they continue to operate today. The buildings deteriorated. The site sat abandoned, t...

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]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/p/b/pixieland-oregon-wp/c0pb-pixieland-the-dream-goes-poof.mp3 0:06 4 full Pixieland: The Estuary Takes It Back https://qualla.com/pixieland-oregon/ In 1976, the Siuslaw National Forest completed an environmental impact statement that established a long-term goal: restore the Salmon River estuary to a natural system free from human development. The mandate was clear, but the work took decades. Restoration of the Pixieland sit...

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