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Paul Bunyan Land is an amusement park in Brainerd, Minnesota, founded in 1950, which is today located on This Old Farm. Its trademark is the 26-foot-tall (7.9 m) animated and talking statue of Paul Bunyan , weighing 5,000 pounds.
The statues were designed by Lennord L. Pitney of Park Rapids, Minnesota. Paul was built by Carl Aldal (1897–1966), a local cement man. Babe was built by N. Edward Johnson (1902 - 1999) who owned the Bemidji Boat Factory.
The Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum at Carson Park (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) has statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The Rumford, Maine visitor center is home to giant statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. In Stony Point, New York at local Scout Camp Bullowa, there is a 18 foot tall statue at the southern entrance. There is also a ...
The Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon race course runs past the statues. Paul Bunyan Land, a popular amusement park 7 miles (11 km) east of Brainerd, Minnesota, features a talking statue of Paul with a statue of Babe. Previously located in Baxter, the original Paul Bunyan Land park closed in 2003 to make room for new commercial development.
A fiberglass Paul Bunyan statue stood at 1471 Rocky Creek Road, just 10 minutes away from the giant cowboy at the Phillips 66 Gas Station on Hartley Bridge Road.
Wisconsin and Minnesota is one of the Big Ten's most heated rivalries, and they play each other for bragging rights and Paul Bunyan's Axe.
Many cities through which the trail passes sell Paul Bunyan trinkets and novelty items. The Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon (started in 2013) runs along the Paul Bunyan State Trail, around Lake Bemidji and past the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues. [34] The Bemidji statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox, appear in the Fargo television ...
The residents of Hackensack first described their town as the home of Paul Bunyan's sweetheart Lucette in the 1940s, when a sculpture depicting her was placed in City Park. [6] A seventeen-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture of Lucette replaced the original in 1991. [7] Statue of Lucette, Paul Bunyan's sweetheart