Watch Out for the Giant Deer! (Enchanted Highway)

Yesterday's drive along I-94 enticed us with a piece of the Enchanted Highway. Geese In Flight (above) sits on the highway to beckon you to the "little road". Now the geese didn't thrill me because anyone who knows me well knows that I DON'T like birds.
So we were off to the Enchanted Highway... The highway has an interesting history. Gary Greff, who lives in the small town of Regent and worked in the school system, didn't want his town to disappear off the map. So in an effort to bring more people to the town, he started making sculptures to put along the highway.
Watch Out! Giant deer are leaping towards the road! We watched farmers along the roadway baling hay. The rolling hills were covered with green and yellow and purple from the crops.
Now I asked the driver to stop at one of the sculptures for some "more than drive-by" pictures. The dogs were thinking they definitely needed to sniff one of those structures. So where did the gang choose to stop? Yes! At the pheasants! OK so the sculptures are great... but with my disdain for birds why not stop at the deer, or the fish?! With Caleb standing under the beak of a baby pheasant, that will give you an idea just how big this roadside art is.
Theodore Roosevelt rides again! Of course, I didn't include all the pictures so that you can drive this little stretch of roadway yourselves. But Theodore Roosevelt was so instrumental in the creation of our national park system that he needed a pictorial.

We had a long driving day with 7 hours in the truck. In my RV-Park Reviews browsing I remembered the names of a few well rated parks when the first one I called was full. So we went down the road a few more miles to the Sturgis area and stayed at No Name City RV Park. Water and electric for $16 a night with a nice pool for Caleb to swim in. Granted it is by the highway so there is the constant drone of traffic, but we wanted an easy access to the freeway stop. Because today we have a short drive to Custer State Park! We will be staying there for 3 nights, so the grill and the lounge chairs will come out of storage!