Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Helena

Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Helena? These 9 are the genuinely strange ones — Chip Clawson Sculpture Garden (Ode to Edward James), Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild, Ryder Horses Metal Sculptures & the Conoco Rodeo Bull and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Helena they'd never find on their own.

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Chip Clawson Sculpture Garden (Ode to Edward James) Ceramicist Chip Clawson has spent years turning his Helena yard into a private surrealist environment inspire… Helena
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Founded in 2014 by sculptor Kevin O'Dwyer, this open-air sculpture park sits on wooded acres just off Highway… Lincoln
Ryder Horses Metal Sculptures & the Conoco Rodeo Bull Helena welder Bill Ryder builds life-size horses, a driftwood-and-metal elk, and a rideable rodeo bull out of… Helena
The Bullwhacker Statue Mid-stride on the Last Chance Gulch pedestrian mall, a bronze man cracks a whip over invisible oxen. Sculpted… Helena
Bleu Horses Thirty-nine bright blue steel horses graze on a windswept 160-acre hilltop above Highway 287, visible for mil… Three Forks
Big John: Cowboy Muffler Man A 20-foot fiberglass cowboy has stood guard over Big John's Casino since 1999, hands hovering at his sides as… Great Falls
Old Fire Tower (Guardian of the Gulch) This skeletal wooden watchtower has loomed over downtown Helena since 1874, raised to spot fires racing throu… Helena
Devil's Kitchen Cave, Mount Helena City Park Tucked into the limestone cliffs partway up Mount Helena is a gaping cave the locals call Devil's Kitchen, re… Helena
Gates of the Mountains Boat Tour Meriwether Lewis named this stretch of the Missouri in 1805 because the 1,200-foot limestone walls seem to sw… Helena (Upper Holter Lake)