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Pheasants on the Prairie is a sculpture on the Enchanted Highway in North Dakota. The rooster is listed as 70 feet long and 40 feet tall, and the hen as 60 feet long and 35 feet tall, with two chicks. The sculpture's own page gives pipe and wire mesh as its materials and dates its erection to 1996 to 1997. It is one of the sculptures Gary Greff built along the Enchanted Highway, which leads to Regent.
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Pheasants on the Prairie
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46.52923° N, 102.55040° W
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Pheasants on the Prairie is a family of giant pheasants on North Dakota's Enchanted Highway; Roadside America gives the rooster as 40 feet tall. It is one of the sculptures built along the road that runs to the small town of Regent.
Roadside America says it is made of pipe and wire mesh. It gives the rooster as nearly seven tons, the hen as 35 feet tall, and the chicks as 15 feet tall each. It says the sculpture was finished in 1997 and was the first on the highway made mostly by Gary Greff working alone. Raw Vision dates it to 1996.
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Free roadside stop at about mile 24 of the Enchanted Highway, with a parking area and information kiosk.
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Free, open year round on the Enchanted Highway (state tourism listing), with a parking area and informational kiosk at the sculpture. The sculpture stands along a rural two-lane highway a long drive from the interstate; there is no published street address.
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