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The “Shoe Tree” Near Shaniko, Oregon

Although the “shoe tree” may not be its official name, this bizarre looking, shoe-decorated dead tree stands just ten yards from U.S. 97 highway shoulder, exactly at milepost 53 just north of Shaniko, OR. We breezed past it pretty fast, but make a quick stop to turn around.

Funny story – I was with Heather and the little ladies, and these 3 tough guys got out of their car and started walking towards our car as I was out jumping the fence to get a closer look at the tree. I kinda started heading back towards our car to see what was up and apparently all the wanted was a snap. Paranoia I guess…img_5040_1-shoe-tree-near-shaniko-color

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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  • terri

    fyi – as of 3-12-10, the Shaniko shoe tree has been burned down! drove through there yesterday and saw the burnt carcass of the what wss left — stopped in one of the little stores in town, and the lady there said someone burned it down about the beginning of March – not sure who. townsfolk are very sad that they lost their landmark.

    thought you’d like to know.
    - terri

  • terri

    fyi – as of 3-12-10, the Shaniko shoe tree has been burned down! drove through there yesterday and saw the burnt carcass of the what wss left — stopped in one of the little stores in town, and the lady there said someone burned it down about the beginning of March – not sure who. townsfolk are very sad that they lost their landmark.

    thought you’d like to know.
    - terri

  • andy

    @terri – Wow! That’s really sad. It was a good landmark on an otherwise pretty stale drive…

  • Lynda Lee Dias

    Ten years ago my husband drove me from california to medford oregon to find my fathers grave, on our way home we past this shoe tree, i wanted him to stop so i could take a pic of this tree but he wanted to keep going. i have been kicking myself all these years for not stopping, thank you for this picture it is absolutely awesome. you made this 63 year old woman very happy, lynny

  • http://about.me/tillo13 Andy Tillo

    Happy to have made your day Lynda! It was a pretty neat tree! Take care!


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