North Dakota

After leaving Canada, we drove across the long, long, long state of Montana on Route 2 to North Dakota to Theodore Roosevelt National Park at the town of Medora. This park is dedicated to the president who started the U.S. Forest Service and our national park system. Roosevelt said "I would never have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." It was there that he developed his interest in nature and conservation. The park service has worked to return the land in this national park to the way it was when Roosevelt lived there. We saw herds of bison, wild horses, prairie dog towns, and wild turkeys. The scenery is that of buttes, canyons, grasslands, and valleys. You can picture cowboys riding the range, and imagine how rugged life must have been back then.