Riverfront Park’s famous metal goat has made discarding trash an exciting pastime for five decades now

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture photo

Kids have been approaching the Garbage Goat with a mix of fear and delight ever since 1974.

For half a century now, one corner of Riverfront Park has been slightly cleaner than the rest. This can likely be attributed to the quirky metal billy goat with a vacuum in its mouth feeding a trash bin.

But where did it come from?

Former Inlander staffer Daniel Walters once surmised that the garbage-eating goat was created by ancient Greek

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