← The Great Plains
Stop 6 · Days 733–737
Bismarck & Theodore Roosevelt
Bismarck & Theodore Roosevelt, NDNorth Dakota's capital and its wild western badlands — a prairie skyscraper of a statehouse, and the painted canyons, bison, and wild horses that shaped a young Theodore Roosevelt.
Where to stay
A Bismarck hotel, then Medora
Capital first, then the park gateway town.
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You gotta eat this
Knoephla soup
North Dakota's German-Russian dumpling soup.
The days here
Each day opens its own hour-by-hour page
What this stop is made of
- National Parks & Forests
- State Capitols