Nearly two decades before becoming America’s 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt fell in love with North Dakota’s Badlands. After his first visit for a bison hunt in September 1883, Roosevelt returned ...

Early plans to build the Theodore Roosevelt National Park were recorded in a 1934 issue of The Dickinson Press.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota preserves the Badlands that inspired the 26th president’s passion for conservation. Drive the South Unit Scenic Drive for sweeping vistas of the ...

A scenic road that’s been closed for six years reopens at North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, giving visitors more sensational views of the Badlands, bison and wild horses. The National ...

Part wildlife sanctuary and part Wild West, Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a vast landscape of hills, prairies, and floodplains known collectively as the North Dakota Badlands. This is the only ...

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 ...