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A giant concrete Ayrshire cow, originally a Sunshine Coast roadside attraction and now at Highfields Pioneer Village.
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The Big Cow
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Site-level location · 27.4411° S, 151.9563° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
Two hundred kilometres inland from where it was built, a concrete Ayrshire now presides over a heritage village. The Big Cow was a Sunshine Coast institution long before it reached the Darling Downs. A giant concrete Ayrshire, it belonged to a dairy-themed attraction that generations of Queensland families visited, and when that closed the cow faced the usual choice between a truck and a tip.
It got the truck. In 2020 it was moved inland to Highfields Pioneer Village, north of Toowoomba, where it now anchors a working heritage museum rather than a roadside attraction. The village describes it as seven times larger than life.
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PRACTICAL
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WHAT TO EXPECT
The Big Cow was moved to Highfields in 2020 and is now part of the Pioneer Village attraction.
ACCESS
Navigate to Highfields Pioneer Village at 73 Wirraglen Road and follow venue access arrangements.
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