About Giant Fork
A 35-foot stainless steel fork is planted tines-first outside an office building in Springfield’s Chesterfield Village. Weighing about 11 tons, it looks like a giant utensil dropped from the sky and left leaning against the building. The polished sculpture is easy to miss from the main road, which makes finding it part of the fun.
The fork began as advertising. Springfield agency Noble and Associates designed it in 1990 for a restaurant on South Glenstone Avenue. After the restaurant closed, the fork moved to the agency’s offices at its present Chesterfield Village location. A one-time promotional prop became one of the city’s best-known roadside curiosities.
You can see the fork outdoors without buying a ticket or taking a tour. Stand back for a photo that shows its scale against the three-story building. Although it has often been called the world’s largest fork, newer oversized forks elsewhere make that title debatable. Springfield’s version remains a memorable stop for anyone collecting strange roadside landmarks.