How do you visit Largest Ball of Twine?

Free; covered gazebo on the main street. The photo to get is adding your own wrap to the ball.

What is near Largest Ball of Twine?

Cawker City, Waconda Lake, Glen Elder State Park, US-24.

Roadside Americana · Kansas

World’s Largest Ball of Twine

Q: What is Largest Ball of Twine?

A nine-ton community ball of twine. A nine-ton sphere of sisal twine in Cawker City, Kansas, started by one farmer in 1953 and still growing — visitors are handed twine to add their own wraps. The platonic ideal of the great-plains roadside stop.

A nine-ton community ball of twine

TypeGiant Roadside Colossus

StateKansas

WhenYear-round

How to visitFree; covered gazebo on the main street

A nine-ton sphere of sisal twine in Cawker City, Kansas, started by one farmer in 1953 and still growing — visitors are handed twine to add their own wraps. The platonic ideal of the great-plains roadside stop.

The photo

Adding your own wrap to the ball.

Pair it with

Cawker City
Waconda Lake
Glen Elder State Park
US-24

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