The Enchanted Highway showed up on my search of the main sites to see in North Dakota. When I stopped at the North Dakota visitor centre they also mentioned this roadtrip so I put it on my “to see” list.
Driving east along Highway 94 from Theodore Roosevelt National Park I started my roadtrip down the Enchanted Highway at exit 72. From Gladstone to Regent is a 32 miles stretch along county highway 21 that features some of the world’s largest scrap metal sculptures. There are seven uniquely different artworks along this highway.
The sculptures were made in the late 1980’s by a local artist named Gary Greff. He wanted to help save his small town of Recent, North Dakota and came up with this inventive idea to put his town on the map. It worked.
The movie Field of Dreams with the phrase “if you build it, he will come” inspired him to create this art. He spent a year learning to weld and then began to create. He christened the road Enchanted Highway. It is now listed as one of the top 10 sites to see in the North Dakota.
