These badlands aren’t quite as colorful as those in SD, but it’s still quite a place. We saw some of the wild horses, left behind from the ranching days, a bison, a mule deer, and more prairie dogs. It was an easy drive about and then we departed for the drive to Lake Sakakawea State Park about a 3 hour drive with a stop for provisions. Not much in the way of towns in this part of ND so you take what you can. We found a well-stocked grocery store and I imagine people from as far away as an hour or more must make the trek here.
As we cruised along I94 we saw a monotonous landscape of flat to rolling hills, lots of sunflowers, wheat and baled hay fields, occasional cows, a few towns, and this far north, the occasional oil pumpers. There’s oil and gas in the shale below.
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