World Art Utopia

Doggie Stick Library

A golden-brown dog on a leash standing on its hind legs at a yellow wooden cabinet of sticks under a Doggie Stick Library sign.
Artwork FileLake Lure · USA

Doggie Stick Library

SeenAugust 2023

Lake Lure Flowering Bridge · Lake Lure, North Carolina

Street Art Utopia archive, media 79596. Maker, photographer and capture date not recorded. The yellow cabinet, stick grid and paw-print sign match Carolina Odyssey's photo of the library at the Flowering Bridge.

The Doggie Stick Library was a cabinet of sticks that dogs could “borrow” in the River's Edge Dog Garden, beside the Rainbow Bridge pet memorial at the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge in North Carolina. Source Checked

Hurricane Helene washed away the dog garden in September 2024. No source reports what happened to the cabinet itself. Source Reported

💡 4 things to know

  1. Borrow a stickWRAL wrote that dogs could borrow a stick to play with from the “Dog Stick Library”. Source Checked
  2. In the dog gardenWLOS described the shaded dog garden next to the water, with its own “Stick Library”. Source Checked
  3. Part of the Flowering BridgeThe Flowering Bridge's own page invited visitors to check out a stick from the Stick Library. Source Checked
  4. Lost gardenFlowering Bridge volunteer Linda Randeau told FOX Weather after Helene: “We lost everything.” Source Reported

📍 Where it is

River's Edge Dog Garden, by the Rainbow Bridge pet memorial, Lake Lure Flowering Bridge over the Broad River, Lake Lure, North Carolina. Source Checked

Open in Maps

Map search for the Flowering Bridge; the garden was destroyed in 2024.

🗓️ Sightings

  1. 202224 Jul

    WRAL describes the dog garden and its stick library.

  2. 202320 Aug

    WLOS reports the “Stick Library” in the dog garden.

  3. 202428 Oct

    FOX Weather: the dog garden washed away by Helene; the cabinet's fate is unreported.

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps are reports or records. Publication dates are not camera dates.

✅ The facts

Maker
Not named by any source Source Unconfirmed
Place
River's Edge Dog Garden, Lake Lure Flowering Bridge Source Checked
Existed by
July 2022 Source Checked
Name on the sign
Doggie Stick Library (press: “Dog Stick Library”, “Stick Library”) Source Checked
Garden
Washed away by Hurricane Helene, September 2024 Source Reported
Cabinet today
Fate not reported Source Unconfirmed

🔗 Related

All sources & image credits

Street Art Utopia archive, media 79596. Maker, photographer and capture date not recorded. The yellow cabinet, stick grid and paw-print sign match Carolina Odyssey's photo of the library at the Flowering Bridge.

Last checked: 25 October 2026 · How we verify art