Alfalfa, Oregon: Shoe Tree
A tree decorated with pairs of shoes tossed into its craggy limbs. There may be more than one tree. Said to be a student rite of passage.
- Address:
- Willard Rd, Alfalfa, OR
- Directions:
- East of Alfalfa (east of Bend) on Willard Road as it turns south at Reservoir Rd.
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The reports of this shoe tree being gone are wrong! I drove to it today and took photos. There are more shoes on the tree, and surrounding the base of the tree, than at any previous time.
[James Quattlebaum, 02/02/2018]The Shoe tree has been removed! The tree full of shoes no longer exists.
[mb194, 01/11/2013]
On a lonely stretch of Willard Road east of Alfalfa, Oregon, amid the high desert pines, you are startled by a roadside tree festooned with hundreds of pairs of shoes.
My understanding is that when local high school kids leave town for college they hang up a pair of shoes symbolic of leaving home.
[Marshall, 01/15/2010]The shoe tree is located east of the town of Alfalfa on Willard Road before it turns south.
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