Fremont’s famous Troll, built in 1990, is based upon the Norwegian folktale of three billy goats who wanted to get across a bridge where a troll lived below. Fremont’s Troll is underneath the Aurora Bridge at the intersection of North 36th Street and Troll Avenue.
In tribute to the Troll, on the corner of North 35th Street and Troll Avenue there is a metalwork group of three billy goats, created in 2015.
The three billy goats represent the work of one of Fremont’s volunteer groups, the Friends of the Troll’s Knoll. This group has done other artworks such as an arched garden gate, has done plantings for erosion control and they have periodic clean-up work parties.