Winlock, Washington | 4k Driving Tour | Home of World's Largest Egg!!
Driving around Winlock and what is claimed to be the world's largest egg. The big egg in Winlock, south of Tacoma, is twelve feet long and weighs 1,200 pounds. It sits on a pedestal on a ten-foot steel pole in the wide, grassy median running through the center of town. On the pedestal is written, "World's Largest EGG."
Winlock was America's second largest egg producing town until the 1950s, and local egg pride remains strong. The first big egg was fashioned from canvas by town boosters in 1923, part of a celebration around the opening of the Pacific Highway. A plastic version replaced it in 1944.
In the 1960s, the egg was upgraded to a fiberglass model, which lasted until the early 1990s. A local chicken hatcheryman, Vern L. Zander, funded the most recent egg before his death in 1993. Winlock holds its Egg Day festival on the third weekend in June.
The town has constructed a very tiny park. Freight trains seem to roar through on the adjacent track frequently during the daytime, but the egg remains uncracked.
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