Fisherman's Dream

Regent, North Dakota, United States

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Fisherman's Dream is a scrap-metal sculpture by Gary Greff on the Enchanted Highway near Regent, North Dakota, at about mile 19 from Interstate 94 Exit 72. The Enchanted Highway's website lists it as erected in 2002, 70 feet tall, and made from oil well tanks.

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46.59425° N, 102.55036° W

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The story

A 70-foot-tall trout leaps from the North Dakota prairie, welded from the tanks of old oil wells.

Fisherman's Dream is one of the giant scrap-metal sculptures along the Enchanted Highway, a 32-mile route from Interstate 94 Exit 72 to the small town of Regent. North Dakota Tourism says it depicts a 70-foot-tall trout and other fish jumping out of the water. The Enchanted Highway's own page lists it as erected in 2002, 70 feet tall, and made from oil well tanks. North Dakota Tourism places it at mile 19 from the Exit 72 start, between Grasshoppers in the Field at mile 15 and Pheasants on the Prairie at mile 24.

The highway is the work of Gary Greff, a former teacher and school principal who returned to Regent in 1989 to help revive the town. He was inspired, according to North Dakota Living, by tourists photographing a metal strongman holding a bale made by a local farmer, and he had never welded before; local farmers taught him. His first sculpture, the Tin Family, went up in 1991. Prairie Public records that Greff's aim was to draw tourists and business to a town with a shrinking population. CBS News reported in 2019 that Geese in Flight, at 110 feet tall and 154 feet wide, was according to Guinness World Records the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world.

In 2024 North Dakota Living reported that a Friends of the Enchanted Highway Foundation had formed to maintain the sculptures, putting annual upkeep at about $70,000, and that Greff was still adding new work.

North Dakota Tourism lists the highway as free and open year-round, with a parking area and kiosk at each sculpture except Geese in Flight.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

A free roadside stop on the Enchanted Highway, about 19 miles south of I-94 Exit 72, with a parking area and information kiosk. North Dakota Tourism lists the highway as open year-round. The sculptures are spread along a rural county highway.

ACCESS

Stands along county Highway 21 about mile 19 south of I-94 Exit 72, between Grasshoppers in the Field and Pheasants on the Prairie. North Dakota Tourism lists free admission and a parking area and kiosk.

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