Brainerd Paul Bunyan Land
— a giant who has greeted children by name since 1950.
Not only on a wall.
Brainerd Paul Bunyan Land, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A 26-foot animated Paul Bunyan that has been greeting children by name since 1950, originally at a roadside park in Baxter, since 2003 the centerpiece of Paul Bunyan Land at This Old Farm just east of Brainerd. A pioneer village, a small midway, and the talking giant under the pines. Roadside Americana, kept running by one family.
The place, in three passes.
Paul Bunyan Land sits about ten miles east of Brainerd, Minnesota, off State Highway 18 in Crow Wing County. The park combines the historic Paul Bunyan animated statue with This Old Farm Pioneer Village, a small amusement park, and a collection of antique farm equipment. The 26-foot Paul figure was built in 1950 for the original Paul Bunyan Center at the junction of Highways 210 and 371 in Baxter, and was moved to its current site in 2003 when the Baxter property redeveloped.
Paul Bunyan Land operates seasonally, generally from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day with limited weekend hours into mid-September. Brainerd sits in Minnesota's central lake country, and the park's traffic follows the summer cabin season around Gull Lake and the Whitefish Chain. The talking giant runs throughout the day; staff feed children's names to him through a microphone hidden behind the welcome counter. Antique tractor shows and Pioneer Village reenactments fill weekends across the summer calendar.
Admission to Paul Bunyan Land covers the amusement rides, the Pioneer Village, and the Paul Bunyan animated statue. The park is family-owned and small by amusement-park standards, with most rides geared to children under twelve. Parking is free off Highway 18, and a picnic shelter sits beside the village. Atlas Obscura and Roadside America have profiled the site as one of the last operating mid-century roadside attractions in the upper Midwest, alongside the larger Paul Bunyan and Babe statues on the lakefront in Bemidji.
