Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild — Attraction in Drummond

Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild is an outdoor art exhibit featuring unique, larger than life works of art created with natural and industrial materials to reflect the community's mining, logging, and ranching heritage.

Accessibility info and site description: The parking lot is graveled with no disabled parking, and there are two accessible restrooms and a large picnic area. This park is free to visit, but they do accept donations. Donation boxes can be found near the restrooms and at the entrance. Nature trails wind through the woods to the various sculptures on display. There is a map at the entrance showing which trails are accessible and which are not accessible, and signs throughout the park to help guide your visit. The wheelchair accessible trails are flat, three to four feet wide, and made of gravel. The non-accessible trails are narrow, made of dirt, and have some bumps, depressions, and areas of unevenness. Backless benches are available throughout the park, many of which are on the trail near the sculptures, and some benches are tucked away in the vegetation off trail. Each sculpture has an interpretive sign with the artist's name and an explanation of the artwork. Total distance to visit all the sculptures at the park is about a mile.

Sculpture in the Wild is a really interesting and unique place to visit. The size of the sculptures is impressive, and some of them are quite eerie amidst the backdrop of the woods. The gravel on the trails is the flat river rock type of gravel that is much easier to navigate in a wheelchair than the chunky, sharp gravel used in other places. Additionally, the non-accessible dirt trails, while being more narrow and somewhat bumpy, are not considerably different from the accessible trails and may still be manageable with a wheelchair. The trails through the woods start with clear signs and trail markers, then somewhere in the middle it starts to get confusing with multiple trail options to go to the various sculptures spread throughout the woods, and it becomes hard to tell which are the accessible trails, non accessible trails, and which are just game trails. I didn't find the map to be particularly helpful while I was there, because the sculpture names and symbols are not always intuitive, and not all trails and sculptures are listed. Lastly, note that the level of peace and quiet of this location will depend on luck and timing. The road noise is minimal, but this spot seems to be popular for many families with vocal young children. There also appears to be a disc golf course that goes through the entirety of the park, so fair warning that your peaceful walk admiring artwork could potentially be interrupted by a game...

If you visit any sculpture gallery, museum, park or display, make it this one!! We were driving down Highway 200 in Montana and looked up at the right time to see the sign for the park. Little did we know what an epic stop it was going to be! We wandered around the 26 acre park for hours, finding massive sculptures around every corner, behind the stand of trees and along the pathways. Turn left, turn right and turn around, everywhere you wander there's something new to discover.

Each sculpture is created with nature and for nature. The artists intentions are to bring awareness, provoke feelings and emotions surrounding nature, provide beauty to the landscape and to educate. There are no "hands off" signs, no "do not climb on" warnings and no fences. The sculptures are meant to be explored, touched, sat on and yes, even climbed on!! It's a park for the entire family, everyone...

Sculptures in the Wild is a fun and unexpected find in Lincoln, MT. You can easily spend an hour or more walking through the forest foot path, reading about the artists and the inspirations for their art. The area is dog friendly and has several places to sit, as well as picnic benches and a pavilion. Pack a picnic lunch and enjoy the creativity of this unique space! The entire path is fairly level and smooth dirt, easy for even the youngest walkers to be navigate. There are two sculptures that require walking down an incline and back up the other side, but anyone unable to do that can view from afar and skip that part, without missing any of the other...