Roadside Americana · Minnesota
Paul Bunyan & Babe
The classic giant lumberjack & blue ox
TypeGiant Roadside Colossus
StateMinnesota
WhenLate spring–fall
How to visitFree; lakefront park
The 1937 statues of the legendary lumberjack and his big blue ox on the Bemidji lakefront — among the most photographed roadside giants in America and the granddaddy of Minnesota’s many Paul Bunyans. Pure North Woods Americana.
The photo
The pair on the Lake Bemidji shore.
Pair it with
- Bemidji
- Lake Bemidji
- Itasca State Park (Mississippi headwaters)
- North Woods
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