World's Largest Buffalo and the National Buffalo Museum
Specialty Museum · Jamestown, North Dakota
A sixty-ton concrete bison standing on the bluff above the James River valley in Jamestown, built in 1959 and visible from Interstate 94, and the museum that grew up beside it. The statue gave Jamestown its nickname, the Buffalo City, and the museum below tells the story of the animal itself - the herds of tens of millions, the slaughter in the 1870s and 1880s that took them to a few hundred, and the recovery. A live bison herd grazes the paddock outside, and it has included white bison.
500 17th Street SE, Jamestown, North Dakota, 58401, United States
The statue, the bison paddock and Frontier Village are open all year and are free to walk. THE NATIONAL BUFFALO MUSEUM keeps its own hours, generally 9 AM to 5 PM in the warmer months with ⚠ REDUCED WINTER HOURS AND DAYS, and charges a modest admission. Parking is free. The site is immediately off Interstate 94 at Jamestown and works as a short break on the drive across the state in any season, even when the museum door is shut.
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