A statue of Bigfoot found at Silver Lake, Washington.
As if physical evidence of the worst North American eruption in modern history wasn’t enough, the attraction guarantees you will pull over by featuring the largest Bigfoot statue we’ve yet seen.
The Mount St. Helens Bigfoot statue is 28-feet tall, made of concrete, with intricately detailed fur and a folklorish grin. It’s as if, instead of fleeing from whirring cameras, he decided to stop and strike a cute pose. You can do likewise, with the whole family, around his legs.
After the eruption, some claimed that the “real” Bigfoot had been killed once and for all.
The owners of the Survivors Gift Shop decided to honor his memory when they built their original Bigfoot statue in the mid-1980s. It was slightly smaller than the current one, and made of combustible materials, as proved by its incineration by vandals in the mid-1990s.
From Roadside America
