The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is set to open in July 2026 outside Medora, North Dakota. Photograph by Image Professionals GmbH, Alamy Stock Photo Theodore Roosevelt first traveled to the ...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK, N.D. -- "I never would have been president," declared the nation's 26th commander-in-chief in 1910, "if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." And ...

BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can ...

MEDORA, N.D. — The day his young wife and mother died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary that “the light has gone out of my life,” and it was only through extended trips to the isolated Dakota ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A new tribal national park in North Dakota's rugged Badlands is opening a little-seen area of the dramatic landscape to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, part of a Native ...

North Dakota may be known for its wide-open prairies and rugged Badlands, but tucked within its cities and landscapes are extraordinary gardens that offer peace, beauty, and adventure in equal measure ...

BISMARCK — After a decisive public contest, North Dakota has a state icon. The State Department of Commerce unveiled the icon Thursday, May 1. It features a sunset, the Badlands and green landscape ...

Theodore Roosevelt first traveled to the Badlands on a hunting trip in 1883. He was so taken by the otherworldly landscape of pastel buttes, trilling meadowlarks, and disappearing bison, that he ...