SDSouth Dakota field entry
Dahl’s Chainsaw Art — Keystone
Keystone, SD
A Keystone gallery where one-of-a-kind chainsaw carvings are made and sold on site, custom commissions can be ordered, artists may be carving in the yard, and a roughly 23-foot wooden Bigfoot towers over the roadside property.
Dahl’s turns an active custom-art business into a roadside sculpture gallery where the making process and gigantic finished pieces become part of the shopping experience.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Working chainsaw-art studio, gallery and store, custom commissions, sometimes-visible carving activity and enormous outdoor sculpture at one property.
The production yard and open-air sculpture display make the act of creating unusual custom art as visible as the one-of-a-kind pieces offered for sale.
Dahl’s Chainsaw Art in Keystone is one branch of the Dahl brothers’ Black Hills carving business, and this profile remains specific to the 121 Roy Street property. The gallery sells original chainsaw-carved work and accepts custom commissions, while visitors may catch active carving on site. Outside, oversized sculptures turn the shop into a roadside gallery, including a seated wooden Bigfoot measured by regional visitor material at about 22 feet 8 inches. The size is rounded here to roughly 23 feet without independently certifying a world-largest claim; attractions, inventory and photography from Dahl’s other Black Hills branches are not imported.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Chainsaw carving
- Original wood art
- Custom commissions
- Gallery and store
- Sometimes-visible carving
- Giant sculptures
- Roughly 23-foot wooden Bigfoot
- Black Hills pine