Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Spokane

Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Spokane? These 13 are the genuinely strange ones — Garbage Goat, The Childhood Express (Giant Red Wagon), Way Out West Statue Farm 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 Spokane they'd never find on their own.

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Garbage Goat A roughly 200-pound corten-steel billy goat tucked into a basalt 'Goat Grotto' actually vacuums up litter thr… Spokane (Riverfront Park)
The Childhood Express (Giant Red Wagon) A 27-foot-long, 26-ton steel-and-concrete replica of a classic Radio Flyer wagon sits in Riverfront Park, wit… Spokane (Riverfront Park)
Way Out West Statue Farm A 16-foot Tyrannosaurus rex looms over a treehouse in an open field beside I-90, sharing the lot with a giant… Spokane (west of city, near Cheney/Medical Lake exits off I-90)
Rotary Riverfront Fountain Designed by Spokane artists Harold Balazs and Bob Perron, this monumental abstract structure functions as a g… Spokane (Riverfront Park)
Mary Lou's Milk Bottle A 38-foot-tall white milk bottle towers over the Garland Avenue sidewalk, built in 1935 as a beacon for the B… Spokane (Garland District)
Mudgy Moose Trail Five life-size bronze statues of Mudgy the Moose are scattered along a 2.25-mile route from the base of Tubbs… Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Sandpoint's Statue of Liberty (Lady Liberty of the Lake) A roughly human-sized Statue of Liberty stands alone at the end of a short concrete pier jutting into Lake Pe… Sandpoint, Idaho
Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Mima Mounds About four miles south of Cheney, the prairie here is studded with hundreds of low, oval domes of earth calle… Cheney
Palouse Falls State Park A 198-foot waterfall thunders into a deep plunge pool ringed by columnar basalt cliffs, the last surviving re… LaCrosse / Washtucna
Dishman Hills Natural Area - Enchanted Ravine Minutes from the strip malls of Spokane Valley, the Enchanted Ravine trail squeezes between exposed 1.5-billi… Spokane Valley
Deep Creek Canyon, Riverside State Park At the northern end of Riverside State Park, a dry side canyon drops through a jumble of 16-million-year-old… Nine Mile Falls
Gardner Cave at Crawford State Park In the far northeast corner of Washington, almost on the Canadian border, Gardner Cave is the longest limesto… Metaline Falls, WA
Dry Falls Dry Falls is the ghost of the largest waterfall that ever existed: a 3.5-mile-wide, 400-foot cliff carved by… Coulee City, WA