About Vermontasaurus
Beside the small airfield at Post Mills, a huge dinosaur skeleton appears to have been reconstructed from whatever lumber happened to be lying around. That is essentially what Vermontasaurus is.
Balloonist and local character Brian Boland created the original sculpture in 2010 with volunteers using scrap wood and recycled material. The first version stretched more than one hundred feet and rose roughly twenty-five feet high, forming a long-legged creature with an enormous tail and skeletal body assembled from mismatched boards.
The project became even stranger when local officials questioned whether the giant wooden dinosaur should be treated as a structure requiring permits. A debate followed over whether Vermontasaurus was a building or a work of art. The dinosaur survived the argument, weather, partial collapse, repairs, and continued tinkering.
Years of rebuilding have made Vermontasaurus less like a polished permanent monument and more like a creature that continues evolving. The rough lumber is part of the appeal. It looks exactly like what might happen if someone tried to construct a prehistoric animal from the contents of several old barns.