North Dakota Tourist Attractions
Vacation Ideas

The Fargo Skate Park in Fargo, North Dakota is a perfect place for adventurous skateboarders, rollerbladers and bikers. This 23,000 square foot facility is made of formed concrete and contains challenges for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes. Skate jams and BMX jams are held periodically. The park is open sunrise to sunset.

The quaint little town of Carrington, with just a little over 2,000 residents, could your vacation idea for North Dakota. This town just loves to hold tourist attracting events. There’s the four day “Potholes and Prairie Birding Festival” where you’ll get to the most remote birding sites in the USA. They also host an exciting "Roughriders Rodeo". There’s more, so you’d better check their web site.

The Cowboy Hall of Fame in Medora, ND has an abundance of attention-grabbing displays which highlight the life of the cowboys, the Indians and the great American West. With 15,000 square feet of display space, they have answered every question you could ask. The Hall also has an busy event program with Children’s activities, a Cinema and a film festival.

The goal of the North Dakota Dinosaur Museum Inc. in Dickinson, ND is to preserve and exhibit the geological and paleontological specimens. They also have an educational program for schools and communities. Some first-hand comments from visitors are; "We Loved the mineral collection", "It’s an excellent fossil museum", "It brought dinosaurs into perspective” and “Our kids loved it”.

If you’ve always been fascinated by the Lewis & Clark Expedition, it just might be a good idea to include a visit to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center located in Washburn, ND. The center presents a summary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition concentrating on the winter of 1804 to 1805 when the expedition camped at Fort Mandan, here in North Dakota.

The Lewis & Clark Riverboat in Bismarck, North Dakota is just what the doctor ordered. You’ll go back in time as you relax on this period paddle wheel river boat and cruise the majestic Missouri River. Add a delicious dinner to this picture and you’ve go a great vacation idea. A fully stocked bar might also fit nicely into this picture.

The road from Dickinson to Mandan in North Dakota is called the “Old Red/Old Ten Scenic Byway”. This scenic route runs sort of parallel to I-94 but zig-zags through each of the quaint small towns which were formally known as the CusterTrail or the Old Red Trail. If you end up in Mandan, read on to find out what’s going on in that historic town.

The historic town of Madan, North Dakota hosts several tourist types of events each year. In June they have the Buggies n’Blues Fest featuring Art in the Park downtown. In July you’ll find the exciting Mandan Rodeo Days and on the 4th you can catch the Mandan Independence Day Parade which is the states longest parade. There’s more so check it out.

The "Gateway to Science Center" in Bismarck is one of the new breed of hands-on educational centers that are making an impressive positive effect all over the country. The center concentrates on interactive exhibits in the areas of light, magnetism, electricity, machinery and air pressure. The center also extends its knowledge base by using traveling exhibits.

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