Ashland, Oregon

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20 minutes over the northern Calif. border. Ashland is a college town with lots of shopping, parks, theater, art and of course outdoor activites. Camping, fishing, winter skiing, water skiing. Lots of free places to parking lot camp or in the great outdoors. Tons of Hippies, young and old.

The hill and valley environs of Ashland Oregon speaks to the hippie mind with an eastern slope of lush greens created by flowing water contrast by rolling oak cover hills to the West. Under the cover of a celestial sky. Like a garden in the sun, Ashland has long born the fruit of many artists and seekers. Give time to Ashland and you will experience a living museum of the movement that predates that of the Haight.

Ashland is hands down the most magical, incredible and delicious country in oregon (just my humble opinion of course!). lithia park is a trippers delight, filled with duck ponds, a human sized rat wheels to play on, trees of every family and a gazillion and a half hiking trails for you and your pals to discover! on any given day you will see little billows of smoke arise and big, wandering eyes enthralled in all natures majesty. i cant say enough about this wonderful place filled with beauty, spirit and the best vibe you can possibly imagine! if you do take a road trip on over, you must check out evo’s downtown. its hip beyond belief, not that every place in ashland is not, but it is a hippie lovers delight! peace to you all, and i hope your paths will someday lead you to this breath of fresh air!

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  2. Ashland is the most magical place in the world. You will be lucky if you get to experience it’s awesome drugs, people, and nature. Every town has its faults but, Ashland is right next to perfect. You will have to think very hard to say a bad thing about this town.

  4. I have a suggestion:
    if you are thinking of being a tourist (shudder) or being a rich bastard in Ashland Oregon please don’t. If you want to vandalize starbucks, respect our existing culture, and give money to those who perform their talents on the sidewalk make yourself at home.
    Tourists are known to mysteriously dissapear here.

  5. Ashland is where I spent my early hippy years in the late 60s. And what a magical place it was! Mostly college students and retirees at that time. Anyone could attend the theatre rehearsals for free. Easy and affordable place to live.

    Then it was DISCOVERED by the Beautiful People with the Big Bucks. Now it is a very exclusive little burg where real estate and everything else is unreachable. Still beautiful, but it now has that underlying putrid stench of M-O-N-E-Y and everything seems a bit artificial and forced.

    Still, I always enjoy stopping in at Lithia Park when I’m passing through. And wonder where some of the old friends are today.

  6. All the ugliness on the web site, ugly smack talk about tourists…rich people in Ashland, etc. Where’s the love all you unemployed, spare changin’ hippy wanna-bees? I remember the real hippies, they were much different then the grunge crowd running the streets today. And what’s with the refusal to take a bath thing the hippies of today have? All the hate for tourists in Ashalnd when none of you hippies live here either. You pass through, hit all the locals and tourists up for spare change, deficate and urinate on our buildings and in our streets. You smoke dope in front of our children and make this cute, friendly town a little uglier than it would be without you.
    Oh, and in regards to dreadlock Johnny and his nasty dog….I’m so glad the 5-0 finally caught up with his drug dealin ass. He belongs in Juvie and and his mother should be in jail, not raising his dog.

  7. The Huckaberry guitarist someone asked about actually goes by the street name of Huckleberry. His real name (as real as you can get from these lazy street people – selecting that life style by choice not forced on them by society) is John Flynn. He’s a lousy guitar player and spends most of his time smoking marijuana, spare changin’, smoking more marijuana, and trying to look like Jesus. Then smoking more marijuana. The usual Lithia Park stoner action. Wasted Life.

  8. i am 24 years old and have been travelling around homeless hitchhiking and riding frieght trains all over the country since the age of 9 and ashland OR. is the only place i have ever even considered setelling down i love ashland too bad im stuck in seattle right now this town is a vile cess pool and it should be burned to the ground

  9. There are not any true hippies in Ashland anymore. There are a bunch of lazy criminals that hang out in Lithia Park during the day selling and using drugs. Most people think these are hippies. But they are dirtbag homeless punks. At night they sleep illegally in the Ashland Watershed. They plant marijuana and set up shanty tent sites. Their campfires threaten the Ashland Municipal water supply all summer long. They leave tons of garbage and urinate and deficate directly into Ashland Creek. A little ways downstream, in Lithia Park, good people let their children play in the same water.

  11. I have nothing against any hippies in general but I would just like to put my two cents in. Hippies are constantly about being against wars and encourage everyone to live peacefully and in nature, which is great but no where close to the ugly truth. There will always be people in this world who will want to dominate over others, and has been like that since the beggining of time, and it still is like that in animals, to include humans; therefore its human nature. Let’s just say that we never had wars in the beginning and everyone lived happily… there will always be those who are willing to step on other peoples feet so they can survive… and that’s no different today, but its just in a modern way which we know as war. If there weren’t army’s out there to defend ourselves from these kind of people who will do anything to dominate, hippies would not have the pleasure of being who they are today. If the Nazi’s had their way during WWII, hippies would not exist today, and neither would anyone besides the “superior race”. Now how is that for a reality check people? War will always go on, but I’m not saying every war is justified… I’m simply stating the well known fact around the world, “Freedom does not come without a price”. And we didn’t have the army’s we have today you wouldn’t be living in Ashland, Oregon and loving it… you probably wouldn’t be alive because your parents or grandparents that gave birth to you would never have made it past the 1950’s the way the Axis powers were advancing… and neither would you be able to smoke marijuana out in public parks because any sort of a Dictatorship or Totalitarian ruler wouldn’t permit that. How is that for another thought? Hope I have opened some eyes to the true world!!!

  12. I think that most people think that all hippys are the storners.They aren’t! I mean to tell you the truth hippys are free spearted people that are into some thaings that most people aren’t.they are librels.HIPPYS RULE.PEACE

  13. Sorry talking again. This is for all the hippy haters but lesson here hippys rule it’s normal people like you that are turning this world into a dark blob of nothing were all the people are wearing the same thaing and doing the same thaing day after day. HIPPYS RULE! PEACE

  14. I would say it is equally if not more human nature to be at peace, to love one another, and to respect the world we live in. I am glad there are still strong groups of people who promote peace and love for all–That is so much better than shrugging and saying “war is human nature.” We have all been told that we are alive due to these wars being fought in the name of freedom. Freedom is never won through violent means….it is a gift inhernet to all of us, and just by being born, we are entitled to it. No one needs to “earn” freedom or love. No war “needs” to be fought for peace. And we are alive because someone loved us enough to bring us into this world and provide for us as we grew!

    The more we hear about peace and harmony, the more our minds will be nourished with beauty and joy….no seeds of violence will have room to grow in a mind full of love. So by all means…..cherish the hippy movement! Success and worthiness cannot only be measured financially, if at all…..it’s what’s inside that makes us who we are!

  15. Hey hippies

    Just wondering how things are in Ashland? Girlfriend and I are getting real sick of yuppie bullshit in Bend, and want to move to a smaller town. Is Ashland worth a look?

  16. Some of us true Ashlanders have decided to take thing in to our own hands.
    If your and vagrant, drug dealer or low lives hassling people in the plaza, you may get your head kicked in.
    The police have backed off so it’s up to us. You’ll think the police are girl scouts compared to us.

    Born and raised in Ashland.

  17. TrueAshlandNative and Ashland Homeowner sound the same person. A hateful, intolerant Republican refugee from 1945 Germany via Argentia. I wonder if that’s the attitude of most Ashland residents or just some right-wing reactionary who’s answer to everything is violence?

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  22. I’ve been reading the comments about hippies–it all sounds nice and fine, but considering how real estate agents, corporate management and how high rental prices are becoming, including the Ashland market–just hope you guys work to fight the dark forces of corporate assimilation and greed!

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