Pine River, Minnesota: Paul Bunyan's Boots, Now Footprints
At the Pine River visitor center, a big pair of Bunyan boots stood at the edge of the parking lot. Whisked off in a 2010 tornado, the concrete footprints remain, and the Information Center still touts its indoor pair of baby Paul booties.
- Address:
- 102 W. Barclay Ave., Pine River, MN
- Directions:
- Downtown, on the nprtheast corner of Barclay Ave. and Mill St., a block west of MN-371/Front St., next to the parking lot of the town Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center.
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Babe stands guard at the Information Center, where you can also see Paul Bunyan's booties and footprints.
[Shannon Martin, 07/02/2015]
This is what is now at the location of the previous giant boots that vanished in the tornado.
[Wendy Jo Dupslaff, 09/02/2011]The boots are gone. A tornado took them in 2010.
[Cat, 06/24/2011]
Paul left a pair of his shoes just off hwy 371 in Pine River, Mn. Check behind the visitors center.
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Consolation sights at the Information Center: an adorable pair of indoor "Baby Boots" from infant Paul. Outside is "Babe the Green Recycling Ox," a fiberglass statue.