North Dakota Tourism - Official Site of North Dakota Department of Commerce - Tourism Division. Exploring the Black Hills and Badlands: A Guide for Hikers, Cross-Country ... - Hiram Rogers. TRNP Highlights Video - Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Bismarck: Little Missouri River at Marmarth. Hiking North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park - Scouting magazine. Big Sky Country. Where it’s just miles and miles of miles and miles. Those who live in and around this area of western North Dakota know that not a heck of a lot of people call this expanse of badlands home. That’s what drew Theodore Roosevelt—then a scrawny 24-year-old from New York—to these parts in 1883, long before he became this country’s 26th president.
“I never would have been president if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota,” he once remarked, reflecting on his life’s influences. Consisting of 70,447 acres of rugged topography, of which nearly half is designated wilderness, Roosevelt’s namesake park offers some of the best national park solitude south of Alaska. More than 100 miles of hiking trails wind through the park’s three units. The gullies, coulees, and grassy buttes are home to a great variety and bounty of wildlife—another reason for Roosevelt’s love of this land. You can return to the Juniper Campground each day after hiking. ND Achenbach Trail Sept 2008 - Jim Wahl (wahl)'s Photos.