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It’s free, it’s open all night, and you can climb it
Under the Aurora Bridge in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, an 18-foot concrete troll crouches in the shadows with a real Volkswagen Beetle locked in its fist.
It weighs 13,000 pounds, sits at the corner of N. 36th Street and Troll Avenue N., and it costs nothing to visit. You can walk up, touch it, climb it, and stay as long as you want.
It’s open around the clock, every day of the year, and the story behind it runs deeper than the concrete.
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A dumping ground became Seattle’s most-climbed sculpture
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