Packway Sculpture Park

Brothers Richard and Will Hathaway run a construction business outside Burney, California, and in the course of their operations had accumulated a wide variety of scrap metal, from broken equipment and such. They were looking to dispose of this material, and rather than just recycle it decided to try making whimsical sculptures instead. They set up their first sculpture in a yard by the turnoff to their business, and it proved so popular they have continued the tradition. For the last 20-odd years they’ve added a new sculpture once a year, and others in the area now donate scrap metal so they have lots of raw material.

The statues are whimsical figures, mostly cartoon animals but with a smattering of human-like forms. There’s a grasshopper in a top hat, a flying pig, a couple of Tin Woodmen, several giant insects, a sauropod dinosaur with a body made of a tapered tank, a flying saucer complete with aliens, a giant dachsund made of a length of pipe, and many others. There are even statues of a skier and a snowboarder. A giant gingerbread man–unusually, made of rocks as well as metal–waves in greeting at the front of the display.