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All the United States Kansas Lucas Jim Dickerman's Open Range Zoo

Jim Dickerman's Open Range Zoo

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

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Jim Dickerman's art is legendary in the Lincoln County region of Kansas. Every creation has a storyline woven within it.

Dickerman is a grassroots sculptor located just outside of Lincoln, Kansas who has decorated the local roadways with his large and small scale sculptures. His artworks have been fabricated from found objects — old farm equipment, car parts, scrap metal, animal bones and feathers, driftwood, limestone, and antlers which he paints and often includes reflective qualities as well. Dickerman is a featured artist with the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, Kansas.

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Driving instructions start on Highway 18 in Lucas, Kansas, and move east, then travel on Highway 14 starting in Lincoln, moving south to I-70. Here are where you can find sculptures (* – Indicates a night active sculpture with movement and light): 

  • Grassroots Art Center – 213 S. Main Street, Lucas (Jim’s work is displayed along with many other grassroots artists)
  • Scoop Dig It – Bowl Plaza, Main Street, Lucas (between Jim’s Wheel of Heritage and Prehistoric Spacecraft
  • Grassness Monster – Intersection of Main Street and Highway 18, Lucas
  • Wow Flower – North Wolf Street, in the yard of the last house on right before Highway 18
  • Grassroots Bird – Intersection of Highway 18 and Highway 232, just east of Lucas Highway 18, between Lucas and Lincoln
  • * Super Bug –South side of Highway 18 between mile markers 83 and 84
  • Dream Dragon Breakout – Northeast corner of Highway 18 and 14, Lincoln
  • Witch and Monkey – One-half mile east on Highway 18, on the north side
  • Bird Is a Bird – Just past Witch and Monkey
  • Internal Flame of Peace – Just past Bird Is a Bird
  • Peace – Where Lincoln Avenue meets Highway 18, by the cemetery and the park, Lincoln
  • Tall Man – East Court St, across the street from the Carnegie Lincoln Library
  • 2 Flowers –South of the Library on S. 3rd St., and by the police station on N. 2nd
  • Peace Collector – Between 1st and 2nd on Lincoln Avenue
  • Horse Shoe Sign – On a tree at the Horse Shoe Range, Lincoln Park, Highway 18 between Lincoln and Beverly
  • Rufus – Mile marker 101, south side, on a wall in the distance
  • Pasture Parrot – mile marker 102, south side of Highway 18
  • Debdacto – Mile marker 106 (flying), south side of Highway 18
  • Headless Dream Dragon Harvester – Mile marker 106, north side of Highway 18
  • * Sky Pony – Mile marker 107, north side of Highway 18
  • Draco – Mile marker 108, north side of Highway 18, Beverly
  • In Memory of Bernadette (Bernie) Anderson – Highway 252, Beverly
  • Flash –South Christie Street, by neighborhood watch sign, east of Tescott
  • Power Hawk – Mile marker 113, north side of Highway 14
  • Tin Man and Bird in a Tree – West side of Highway 14 at Lost Street
  • Marauder and Dino Bird – Mile marker 182, Highway 14 (1¼ miles south of 18/14 junction), east side, in a field
  • * World Peace Guy – Mile marker 182 Highway 14 (1½ miles South of the 18/14 junction), look up
  • * Dream Dragon – Mile marker 181, Highway 14 (2 miles south of the 18/14 junction), east side
  • * Lot Lizard – Mile marker 181, Highway 14 (2¼ miles south of 18/14 junction), west side
  • Stone Flowers – Mile marker 181, Highway 14 (2½ miles south of 18/14 junction), along east ditch
  • * Gasasaurus and Dino – Just above Stone Flowers
  • * Rotorooter – Just by Stone Flowers (small, green, and orange)
  • * Red Bird – Mile marker 181, Highway 14 (a block length south of Lot Lizard), west side

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Jim Dickerman's Open Range Zoo
213 S Main St
Lucas, Kansas, 67648
United States
39.040329, -98.147697
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