Jamestown, North Dakota: World's Largest Buffalo

RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report

Address:: 17th St. SW, Jamestown, ND
Directions:: I-94 exit 258. Drive north. Turn right at the Frontier Village National Buffalo Museum green highway sign onto 17th St. SW. Follow the road into Frontier Village, then bear left to arrive at the giant buffalo.
Hours:: Open daily May-Sep., closed Sundays Oct-April. (Call to verify)
Phone:: 701-251-9145
Admission:: Free
RA Rates:: Major Fun

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World's Largest Buffalo.

This mighty bull bison -- built in 1959 out of sixty tons of steel and concrete -- keeps its unblinking eye on the Jamestown grain elevator. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

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World's Largest Buffalo.

World's Largest Buffalo

I hope this cute little frontier town is open during the summer! We just couldn't handle running through the deep snow to the Buffalo.

[Em, 02/06/2019]

Giant buffalo.

Giant Buffalo Statue

I love giant things so I really loved this giant buffalo statue. It just brings out the kid in ya!

[Connie from Seattle, 09/05/2013]

Built in 1959, the Jamestown buffalo is the biggest and heaviest -- it weighs 60 tons -- in the world.

World's Largest Buffalo.

Largest Buffalo In The World

Jamestown is home to newly named "Dakota Thunder." This behemoth is 46 ft. long, 26 ft. high, 14 ft. wide, and weighs in at 60 tons! It was sculpted and placed by Elmer Paul Petersen in 1959.

From the vantage point of the big guy, you can also view a free roaming buffalo herd, including several albino buffalo, which are sacred to the native tribes.

[Troy Rognrud, 08/20/2010]

World's Largest Buffalo.