The Great American Road Trip Challenge~4.5 years · 48 states · one loop
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Stop 6 · Days 598–601

Bismarck & Theodore Roosevelt

Bismarck & Theodore Roosevelt, ND

North 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

  1. 598Day 598 — The CapitalFull day · 3h 30m planned
  2. 599Day 599 — West to MedoraFull day · 3h 30m planned
  3. 600Day 600 — Theodore Roosevelt NPFull day · 5h planned
  4. 601Day 601 — East to FargoDrive day · 4h drive

What this stop is made of

  • National Parks & Forests
  • State Capitols