Deer Crossing

Gladstone, North Dakota, United States

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Deer Crossing is a scrap-metal sculpture of a buck and a doe, part of Gary Greff's Enchanted Highway in southwestern North Dakota. Erected in 2002, it was made from oil well tanks. The buck is 75 ft tall by 60 ft wide and the doe 50 ft by 50 ft. The Enchanted Highway begins at Interstate 94 exit 72 near Gladstone, and the sculpture's official page gives that exit for the visit.

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46.84617° N, 102.57465° W

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A buck 75 feet tall and a doe, made from scrap oil well tanks, stand beside a North Dakota prairie road.

Deer Crossing is a sculpture of a buck and a doe on the Enchanted Highway, the project's official page says. It was erected in 2002. The buck is 60 feet wide and 75 feet tall; the doe is 50 feet wide and 50 feet tall. North Dakota Tourism describes it as a leaping 75-foot-tall buck and a 50-foot-tall doe.

The sculpture belongs to a roadside series by Gary Greff. Wikipedia says Greff began building the Enchanted Highway in 1989 with the intention of reviving his hometown of Regent after decades of population and economic decline. Wikipedia's list of the sculptures begins with The Tin Family in 1991 and places Deer Crossing in 2002, between Geese in Flight (2001) and Fisherman's Dream (2006). North Dakota Tourism says the sculptures line the highways leading from Gladstone to Regent, and the project's website describes a 32-mile scenic drive.

For visitors, the official page gives Interstate 94, Exit 72.

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