Live Webcams in Jamestown

Jamestown, North Dakota, is a prairie railroad city on the James River, and the live webcams in Jamestown show what the town has chosen as its face: a hillside above the interstate where a concrete bison the height of a house stands over a pasture with a living herd grazing beneath it. Roadside hills are the vantage points, with the open plain behind them and the weather arriving from a long way off. The city keeps Central Time, UTC−6, UTC−5 in summer; the herd is most visible in the long light of a summer evening, which is late afternoon on the American coasts and past midnight in Europe. The statue is 26 feet tall and has stood there since 1959, when the town built it to make drivers on the highway stop. Winter is long and white, but the bison stay out.