Don McFarland, who owned the Paul Bunyan Amusement Center, said in 2003 that attendance had declined from about 125,000 (20 years earlier) to 76,000. Smude and Rademacher declined to detail Paul ...

The Brainerd area lost a giant-sized landmark in September when the Paul Bunyan statue that was the major drawing card for Baxter's Paul Bunyan Amusement Center was moved to its new home at This ...

About 150 miles down the Mississippi River, Brainerd, at the geographic center of Minnesota, considers itself the ”hometown of Paul Bunyan.” A 15-foot statue of Babe calls attention to the ...

There's even a bike trail named after him. Of course there's the animatronic version at Paul Bunyan Land in the Brainerd lakes area: And Bunyan and Babe have been long-time residents on the shores ...

Case in point: Cragun's Resort Golf & Conference Center in Brainerd is launching a Paul Bunyan Fest in September. While it's not home to the Paul Bunyan statue at the city's Welcome Center ...

Today, images of Bunyan statues fill Minnesota family photo albums — standing tall in onetime lumber boomtowns Bemidji, Brainerd and Akeley. “That lovable Paul, by all accounts, was likely ...

Paul Bunyan Center is a public school located in Bemidji, MN, which is in a remote town setting. The student population of Paul Bunyan Center is 96 and the school serves PK.The school’s minority ...

A second Paul Bunyan can also be found in Brainerd at the city’s welcome center. Built in 2006 by a local artist, the statue is about 12-feet-tall and displayed in a seated position. According ...