Sumner, Missouri: Maxie, the World's Largest Goose
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- Address:
- Park Drive, Sumner, MO
- Directions:
- From US-36 in Laclede, turn south (no stoplight) onto MO-139. Drive 12 miles, following MO-139. When you reach Sumner continue on MO-139 to the west end of town. You'll see Maxie on the right.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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40-foot-tall goose statue with 62-foot-wide wings in the "Wild Goose Capital of the World," pop. 102.
Roadsideamerica.com Report... [04/11/2021]Maxie, the World's Largest Goose: In the summer of 2017 Debbie Jackson and Denise Cummings drove to Sumner, Missouri, to see Maxie, the World's Largest Goose. [04/11/2021] Complete Story...
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Three tons and a wingspan of 61 feet, this awesome statue actually turns according to the wind direction! It's in need of repairs and the general store in town has a donation jar, which I did donate to because this is a pretty neat offbeat attraction!
[Katherine Miller, 08/10/2019]
Sumner has an annual Goose Festival every third weekend of October. It's really cool. I go to this every year. They have a gooseberry pie contest.
The goose is named Maxie (which is a female). She is made of fiberglass, and is not just a monument, but has rollers on the bottom, and the beak points the direction in which the wind is blowing.
[Joyce, 06/22/2007]In a park in the midst of a north-central Missouri town is a gigantic Rodan-like goose, as if taking off in flight. It's Maxie the Goose! Supposedly this area is the (self-named) Wild Goose Capital of the World." The funny thing is, when I was visiting, there were indeed hundreds of Canadian geese in V formations in the sky.
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