Juntura, Oregon: Shoe Tree
One of dozens of similarly chosen trees scattered across America, into which people feel compelled to hurl their shoes. Original tree destroyed in 2010; a tree just down the road assumed the role.
- Address:
- US Hwy 20, Juntura, OR
- Directions:
- On US Hwy 20 about 17 miles east of Juntura or 16 miles west of Harper, between mileposts 206 and 207, on the north side, in a small dirt turnout next to Gold Creek.
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Too bad the original tree split in 2 and fell. Some of it is still there, but you can see part of it down below where it broke off.
[Julie, 04/21/2021]
Very nice tree.
[Martina, 06/17/2018]
The Shoe Tree LIVES! Just drove past it today; it was a lovely WTF moment. Hwy 20, Gold Creek, before mile marker 208 on the north side.
[Lew Brown, 10/04/2016]
My husband pointed out the Shoe Tree to me on a trip to Payette, Idaho to visit our son-in-law in May of 2002. My husband passed away in late 2002. I looked forward to stopping by the tree on my trips to see our kids. I took a pair of my husband's boots on a trip to Idaho and the grandkids painted the boots and put a special reminder of their Grandpa on the boots and we hung them on the Juntura Shoe Tree. His name was Lucky and we snapped pictures of the shoes.
Sure miss that old tree and am looking forward to finding the new one in that area so we can put another pair of Lucky's boots among the branches.
[Brenda Gay, 06/03/2011]
The shoe tree in Oregon was burned down by vandals mid-2010. I'm sad, my family would stop there every year at least once on the way to CA from WA, sometime mid spring - mid summer it was burned down. It's a shame, nothing fun seems to last anymore. A favorite landmark is gone forever.
[Danielle Goforth, 01/05/2011]Bill Nyfeler sent this 2005 view of the Juntura Tree in all its glory.
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This tree was chosen by shoe-hurlers to replace another tree, just to the east, that was destroyed in 2010. The People must have their shoe trees!