The third time my dad joined us, and we made it a little farther than I did the first time, but we realized that if there was a trail going to the statue area, it would have to wind for several miles on steep mountains. ![]() ![]() The second time I went with my mom, and while hiking she made me realize that we should have bear spray and maybe a larger hiking group. The first time I had come alone and unprepared, and it was going to get dark soon. Yeah, just parking in the middle of nowhere to look for a scary statue! (It was encouraging to go from a fern-free Gold Hill to a hillside covered with ferns, though!) I got out and started hiking these trails, but never made it to the GPS coordinates of the alleged Bill Cipher statue. That meant I had to drive several miles up the road, and then swing back around until I reached some logging paths. Although this location was on BLM land right across the street from the Oregon Vortex, the problem was that there was private property blocking off a direct path. I actually searched for the Bill Cipher statue in this location three separate times. Ferns don’t grow just anywhere, so that was actually a better hint than the gate! It’s a rusty post for a gate! The gate itself was actually torn off and down the hillside a bit. Other than a clue about it being “beyond the rusty gates”, the only hint in the show to its location was that there was a fern nearby. But I didn’t realize with the brief clip that it was indeed a lifelike statue, and that there were ciphers in this episode that got the internet buzzing with the belief that this statue of Bill Cipher was somewhere out there, and it was up to us fans to find it! I didn’t read too much into it, as the grainy film made me think it was just really good animation. I did some further research.Īt the end of the series finale, the post credits were slightly different, including a brief filmstrip of (spoiler alert!) Bill Cipher after he had turned to stone in the episode. But as I read the reviews, it seemed like they were all joke reviews and no one had actually been there. Since Bill Cipher is the main antagonist of Gravity Falls, maybe I should head over there after church to see it for myself, take some pictures, and add that into one of the destinations in my article. But then, I noticed something interesting off to the side of the screen.Ī marker labeled “Bill Cipher Statue” had been placed there. In fact, if you type “Gravity Falls, Oregon” into Google Maps, it will take you to the Oregon Vortex! Wanting to make sure that little fun fact was correct before I incorporated it into my article, I plugged it in and watched it zoom into my neighboring town of Gold Hill. Of course one of those places would be the Oregon Vortex, a house of mystery that even the producers admitted they visited and took inspiration from for the show’s “Mystery Shack”. This one would be about places around Oregon that had a Gravity Falls-style feel. In February I watched the series finale, and then tried to move on with life.īefore heading to church on Easter Sunday, I was inspired to write a travel article. I was looking forward to the finale just as much as the long-term Gravity Falls fans. Just a month before the series finale, I got hooked and binge watched every episode. I actually forgot about it for awhile, but it had a way of finding me. ![]() I was moving away from Oregon at the time, and combining the fact that I did not want to miss Oregon with the fact that I would not have access to cable, I did not watch Gravity Falls at the time. All I knew was that it was about boy/girl twins and took place in Oregon. I first heard about Gravity Falls before it came out in 2011. And I didn’t even have to look outside of Disney. Those boys and their pet platypus knew how to make the best of each day and circumstance, and were able to have so many adventures! I was able to turn some of the show’s situations into real-life experiences, such as going to Mount Rushmore, dressing up as Perry the Platypus, and of course, climbing up the Eiffel Tower! Would I ever find such an inspiring cartoon again? I was actually pretty sad when I finished the final episode. I finally finished what I thought was the greatest cartoon of all time, Phineas and Ferb. I read lots of books, and I caught up on some great TV shows. This winter, when I didn’t have the money, the warmth, or even the desire to travel much, I went on more virtual adventures.
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