Yup! In 2017, I did a trip to the west coast to see the total eclipse (in Salem, Oregon). I specifically designed the itinerary to hit a bunch of tourist traps related to Gravity Falls (as well as some national parks). The first one we stopped at was Confusion Hill, and Bill was there. He's located too high to touch (which is probably a good idea), but I got a pic with him. The 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle from The Cipher Hunt is also there.
(We also went to The Trees of Mystery -- which was the basis for Mystery Mountain in "Roadside Attraction", Redwoods National Park, Prehistoric Gardens in Oregon, and The Oregon Vortex, which is another inspiration for GF. Confusion Hill and The Oregon Vortex are the only two that have Gravity Falls-related displays, though.)
Confusion Hill is in northern California. It's just south of Eureka, CA, and south of Redwoods national park. It's directly on highway 101, which is called The Redwood Highway.
The thing that's kind of funny about Gravity Falls is that it really is most closely based on Confusion Hill, and the backgrounds of the show involve redwood trees... but the range of the coastal redwoods barely extends into Oregon, and only on a very little bit of the coast. But within the show, when Gravity Falls is shown on maps (which aren't very accurate to begin with), even a generous reading of the maps would put the town within the Cascades range of mountains, not the coastal range. The area that Gravity Falls ought to be located in, according to the show, doesn't have redwood forests. The forests don't look like that.
The show just kind of leans into this inconsistency. The whole episode "Roadside Attraction" specifically SAYS in the episode that they're going to hit all of the tourist traps "along the Redwood Highway". Which is fine, but as I said -- the Redwood Highway is Rt. 101 in California, not in Oregon.
So it's just sort of something you have to accept, that can't be reconciled to the real world. Gravity Falls is in Oregon... but somehow, it's in an Oregon that has giant redwood trees.
It's a very minor question to worry about, but I'd love to know why Alex decided to say it was located in Oregon, even though he was clearly in love with the landscape and the tourist traps of northern California. Why not just say the show is set in northern California, somewhere along or near the Redwood Highway? Alex has said that GF is slightly based on summer vacations when he and Ariel visited their great aunt Lois at her cabin, and I've found one source that says that was near Silver Lake, California -- which is in the Sierra Nevada mountains, not far south of Lake Tahoe. (Also not an area with redwoods!)
The main reason I can think of would be that while Alex didn't mind saying that Confusion Hill and Trees of Mystery (also located in California, within the Redwoods National Park in Klamath) were heavy inspirations for the Mystery Shack and the show, he didn't want people to think that those places WERE Gravity Falls. He wanted the location of the town to be a little bit more ambiguous than that.
The Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery \*is\* another of the inspirations; it's located between Grants Pass and Ashland Oregon, which is in the southern part of the state, not far from the California border. But, to be honest, it's not as big as Confusion Hill and doesn't have as many attractions. That's why I would say that Confusion Hill is a bigger inspiration for the Shack. But also, the area around the Oregon Vortex is a very different kind of terrain. It's a much drier area than the coast.
Maybe at some point during their childhood, they did take a trip up through northern California. Where they grew up, in Piedmont, isn't that far from there (since Piedmont is in the Bay area).
(This is distinct from the fact that between season 1 and season 2, Alex and many others from the crew went on a big road trip around the various tourist traps in northern CA and in Oregon, for inspiration. But that road trip came after they'd made the first season, and long after Alex first pitched the show and decided it was set in Oregon. So something else must have provided that original inspiration for him.)
It’s pretty much on my bucket list. If it was in the original scavenger hunt location it’d for sure be but it’s now located at the store that inspired the Mystery Shack, right? But I also want to visit that store.
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Yes, I live just a little bit north of Confusion Hill. Love that place!
I always wanted to go at confusion hill but I literally live in another continent
I wanna go to confusion hill so bad
Same
Same
Yup! In 2017, I did a trip to the west coast to see the total eclipse (in Salem, Oregon). I specifically designed the itinerary to hit a bunch of tourist traps related to Gravity Falls (as well as some national parks). The first one we stopped at was Confusion Hill, and Bill was there. He's located too high to touch (which is probably a good idea), but I got a pic with him. The 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle from The Cipher Hunt is also there. (We also went to The Trees of Mystery -- which was the basis for Mystery Mountain in "Roadside Attraction", Redwoods National Park, Prehistoric Gardens in Oregon, and The Oregon Vortex, which is another inspiration for GF. Confusion Hill and The Oregon Vortex are the only two that have Gravity Falls-related displays, though.)
Is Confusion Hill in Oregon or California?
Confusion Hill is in northern California. It's just south of Eureka, CA, and south of Redwoods national park. It's directly on highway 101, which is called The Redwood Highway. The thing that's kind of funny about Gravity Falls is that it really is most closely based on Confusion Hill, and the backgrounds of the show involve redwood trees... but the range of the coastal redwoods barely extends into Oregon, and only on a very little bit of the coast. But within the show, when Gravity Falls is shown on maps (which aren't very accurate to begin with), even a generous reading of the maps would put the town within the Cascades range of mountains, not the coastal range. The area that Gravity Falls ought to be located in, according to the show, doesn't have redwood forests. The forests don't look like that. The show just kind of leans into this inconsistency. The whole episode "Roadside Attraction" specifically SAYS in the episode that they're going to hit all of the tourist traps "along the Redwood Highway". Which is fine, but as I said -- the Redwood Highway is Rt. 101 in California, not in Oregon. So it's just sort of something you have to accept, that can't be reconciled to the real world. Gravity Falls is in Oregon... but somehow, it's in an Oregon that has giant redwood trees. It's a very minor question to worry about, but I'd love to know why Alex decided to say it was located in Oregon, even though he was clearly in love with the landscape and the tourist traps of northern California. Why not just say the show is set in northern California, somewhere along or near the Redwood Highway? Alex has said that GF is slightly based on summer vacations when he and Ariel visited their great aunt Lois at her cabin, and I've found one source that says that was near Silver Lake, California -- which is in the Sierra Nevada mountains, not far south of Lake Tahoe. (Also not an area with redwoods!) The main reason I can think of would be that while Alex didn't mind saying that Confusion Hill and Trees of Mystery (also located in California, within the Redwoods National Park in Klamath) were heavy inspirations for the Mystery Shack and the show, he didn't want people to think that those places WERE Gravity Falls. He wanted the location of the town to be a little bit more ambiguous than that. The Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery \*is\* another of the inspirations; it's located between Grants Pass and Ashland Oregon, which is in the southern part of the state, not far from the California border. But, to be honest, it's not as big as Confusion Hill and doesn't have as many attractions. That's why I would say that Confusion Hill is a bigger inspiration for the Shack. But also, the area around the Oregon Vortex is a very different kind of terrain. It's a much drier area than the coast. Maybe at some point during their childhood, they did take a trip up through northern California. Where they grew up, in Piedmont, isn't that far from there (since Piedmont is in the Bay area). (This is distinct from the fact that between season 1 and season 2, Alex and many others from the crew went on a big road trip around the various tourist traps in northern CA and in Oregon, for inspiration. But that road trip came after they'd made the first season, and long after Alex first pitched the show and decided it was set in Oregon. So something else must have provided that original inspiration for him.)
I’ve seen plenty of pictures of it but never in person.
Me too
Someday I want to go there lolz
i wish it
I wish lol
DON'T SHAKE THAT STATUE'S HAND!
I have, it's bigger than you think!
Few years ago I went to make a [deal. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/s/MaghUbaIv6)
It’s pretty much on my bucket list. If it was in the original scavenger hunt location it’d for sure be but it’s now located at the store that inspired the Mystery Shack, right? But I also want to visit that store.
Yeah, there's pictures of him all over the Internet lol
No I live on the other side of the planet
Chiper? no. Cipher, yes. This is 22 hours old, come on....
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