Pheasants on the Prairie — Enchanted Highway
One of the signature sculptures along the 32-mile Enchanted Highway, situated roughly 24 miles south of I-94 on the road to Regent. The piece features a 40-foot rooster, a 35-foot hen, and three 15-foot chicks — all fabricated from steel by local artist Gary Greff. A parking area with a picnic shelter marks the pull-off on the east side of the highway.
The rooster alone stands 40 feet tall and stretches 70 feet long; the hen runs 35 feet tall and 60 feet long; each of the three chicks is 15 feet tall and 20 feet long. Gary Greff built the whole family from pipe and wire mesh, largely single-handed, with construction running from 1996 into 1997. The scale only registers once you're standing next to it — from the road it reads as a curiosity, but on foot at the pull-off the birds dwarf everything around them, including you and your bike.
Pheasants are a genuinely common sight along this stretch of highway, so there's an odd doubling effect: steel birds overhead, live ones occasionally flushing from the grass at the roadside. The Enchanted Highway runs 32 miles between I-94 and Regent, and this sculpture sits roughly at the midpoint of that run. The parking area on the east side of the road has a picnic shelter, which makes it a practical rest stop as well as a sightseeing one. The sculptures are always viewable from the road, and the pull-off is open to stop whenever you like.
Midpoint of the Enchanted Highway loop; the human-scale isolation of the prairie around the sculptures hits differently from a motorcycle than from inside a car. Picnic table on-site for a break.
Shot by the riders who've run it.
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