Gallup, New Mexico -
Indian Statue
Wears a headdress, carries a hatchet, is clad in sensible Indian clothes. The plaza also features giant arrows stuck in the ground, and a mini-museum inside with old restored gas pumps.
- Address:
- 3370 W. Hwy 18, Gallup, NM
- Directions:
- Navajo Travel Plaza. I-40 exit 16, northwest side.
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Indian Statue, Giant Arrows The Indian statue still stands outside the Gallup Navajo Travel Plaza. A bonus here is that the travel center is ringed with giant arrows to grab your attention. The travel plaza is owned by local Navajos. It is a tribute to their marketing skills that they overlook the fact that the Indian statue is wearing Plains Indian clothes and headdress -- something you'll never see anyone wearing in New Mexico.
The travel center gift shop is a mini-museum with three perfectly restored old-style gas pumps, an old truck, and a mint-condition 1950 Buick. [Wm Breiland, 08/20/2011]
Indian Statue This Indian can be found outside the Navajo Travel Plaza. [Joe Boulter, 10/01/2007][RA: We're betting this is the same statue reported in 2002, about 1/3 of a mile further east on Rt. 66. Not a Muffler Man, but we've seen that fiberglass rendering of an Indian chief from coast-to-coast. It's probably at least 25 years old.]
Giant Wooden Indian This Giant Wooden Indian sits on Route 66 in Gallup, NM at the Galanis
Trading Co. Now that's a big freakin' Indian! [Jason Graham, 06/02/2002]
Nearby Offbeat Places
- The Devil's Highway - 666, Gallup, NM - 4 mi.
- Muffler Man - "Dude Man", Gallup, NM - 5 mi.
- Big Indian and Navajo Code Talker, Gallup, NM - 5 mi.
- Indian Kachina Statue, Gallup, NM - 6 mi.
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