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Looking for a dentist near Junction City, OR? Head south on Highway 99 through the farm ground, pick up the freeway or the Beltline, and we are on Centennial Boulevard in Springfield.
Junction City is the only town in the county named after something that did not get built. Railroad promoter Ben Holladay platted it in 1870 as the spot where two rail lines would meet. The depot never materialized. The name stuck anyway, which is either stubborn or funny depending on the day you are having.
Holladay lays out a town around a rail meeting point that never gets built. Junction City spends its first century being a name with an asterisk on it.
I-5 opens and pulls the traffic off Highway 99. Storefronts empty out. The town gets bypassed a second time, by a different kind of road.
In 1961, with the shops emptying out, a local doctor named Gale Fletchall decided the fix was a festival. He went looking for a theme, and the answer was already there. Danish families had been settling the area since 1902, when Anders Christian Nielsen carved up 1,600 acres and advertised the parcels in a Danish newspaper in Iowa. Junction City was Scandinavian and had mostly forgotten to mention it.
They hoped for four thousand visitors. Ten thousand came. Sixty-odd years later the Scandinavian Festival runs four days every August, one for each of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, and pulls something like a hundred thousand people into a town of six thousand. Admission is still free. Oregon named it a Heritage Tradition in 2014. There is a Finnish steam locomotive parked downtown because in 1980 the town decided it wanted one.
The rest of the year Junction City gets on with it. Highway 99 through the middle, farm ground and u-picks on both sides, the Territorial Wine Trail running out west, and one of the densest concentrations of RV builders and RV service in the country, which is a strange legacy for a town that never got its railroad.
What Junction City still does not have is a dentist of its own. That part has not changed since 1870 either.
All of it happens at the Centennial office with Dr. Matthew Collins. For a drive this long, the worst outcome is being sent somewhere else halfway through.
Exams, cleanings, x-rays, and preventive care for every age in the house.
First visits, sealants, fluoride, and cleanings paced for small kids.
Professional whitening and a straight answer on what your teeth will do.
Toothaches, broken teeth, same-day slots. Call before you get in the truck.
Single tooth, implant crowns, and full arch work planned and placed in house.
Fillings, crowns, bridges, and dentures for teeth that need rebuilding.
Veneers, bonding, contouring, and smile makeovers built around your face.
The full list, plus new patient forms to sort before you drive.
Highway 99 south out of town, then your choice. Beltline east across the river and down, or slide onto I-5 south and come off at Springfield. Either way you finish on Centennial Boulevard, and Suite #3 sits between Pioneer Parkway and Mohawk with parking on site.
If you are already running down for the airport or the shops, this pins onto the same trip. Coburg patients take the other side of the same route, the Springfield page covers the blocks around the office, and the service areas page has every town we cover.
Highway 99 south through the farm ground, then either Beltline east or I-5 south, off at Springfield and onto Centennial Boulevard. It is the same run you make for anything Junction City does not carry.
You are driving past Eugene either way to reach most things. The difference is what happens when you arrive. Everything is done at one office, including implants, so a treatment plan does not turn into three separate trips down Highway 99.
Yes, and for a drive this length it is the sensible way to do it. Parents and kids book back to back so one trip covers the household. Tuesday and Wednesday mornings fill first, so call early in the week.
August gets busy out there and aebleskiver has broken a tooth or two. Call 541-287-7874 as early in the day as you can and we will work to get you seen. We are closed Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, which covers most of the festival weekend, so Thursday is your friend.
Tell us what you need and when you are next heading south. We will build the visit around it.
541-287-7874