Jurustic Park

Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States

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Jurustic Park is an outdoor sculpture park of welded-metal creatures by Clyde Wynia, about five miles north of Marshfield, Wisconsin. Wynia presents the animals as extinct "Iron Age" creatures dug from the marsh. Visit Marshfield lists it as usually open most of spring, summer and fall, with no admission charge.

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Clyde Wynia says the creatures in this sculpture park were dug out of the marsh, where they lived in the Iron Age before going extinct. Most of them are welded metal.

Jurustic Park lies about five miles north of Marshfield in central Wisconsin. According to a May 2026 WJFW report, Wynia made his first piece, an iron bird with a wingspan of about nine feet, around 30 years ago "just for kicks" and hung it in a tree. He kept welding more, and "People started coming, within five years so many people started showing up." WSAW reported in 2021 that he created his first sculpture 28 years earlier, and that in 2020 about 15,000 visitors from every state and 34 countries came; Wynia told WJFW in 2026 that the park gets over 17,000 people a year.

Roadtrippers reported in 2022 that Wynia worked as an attorney before becoming a full-time artist. It described hundreds of creatures on the grounds, from palm-sized pieces to some more than 20 feet tall, including a chain of 6,000 bottle caps that Wynia said he found at a scrapyard. Roadtrippers said new metal makes up about half of his sculptures. Visit Marshfield describes pieces ranging from small insects to massive dinosaurs.

His wife Nancy has the Hobbit House studio and shop, which Visit Marshfield says shows hand-blown glass beads, flowers and sculpture, fibre work and soft sculpture. Some of the creatures have also moved into town: the Downtown Jurustic Trail, a self-guided walk of just under 1.5 miles, starts at the Marshfield chamber of commerce office.

In November 2021 Marshfield's city council approved the general concept and location for a future sculpture park at Wildwood Park. WSAW said the park would stay open at its current site for the foreseeable future, with the timeline depending on the wishes of Clyde and Nancy Wynia. The park was still operating at its Old Sugarbush Lane site in WJFW's May 2026 report. Visit Marshfield says there is no admission charge, though group tours cost a fee.

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Visit Marshfield says the park is usually open most of spring, summer and fall, from 10 am to 4:30 pm, with no admission charge and free parking. Guided group tours are by appointment for a fee. Nancy Wynia's Hobbit House studio and shop is on the grounds, according to Visit Marshfield.

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About five miles north of Marshfield. Visit Marshfield directs visitors north from the north edge of town on Highway E, then along Old Sugarbush Lane until the sculptures appear on the right. Free parking; no admission charge.

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