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Little Missouri State Park is a public recreation area of over 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) located on the western side of the Little Missouri River, near the river's confluence with Lake Sakakawea, ten miles (16 km) north of Killdeer, North Dakota. Much of the state park consists of badlands terrain that is only accessible by trail. The park has ...
Fort Stevenson State Park: McLean: 586.48 acres (237.34 ha) 1974 Lake Sakakawea: Includes Fort Stevenson State Park Arboretum: Grahams Island State Park: Ramsey: 959.33 acres (388.23 ha) 1988 Devils Lake: Last remaining unit of the four former Devils Lake State Parks: Icelandic State Park: Pembina: 930.3 acres (376.5 ha) 1964 Lake Renwick
In the U.S. state of Missouri both state parks and state historic sites are administered by the Division of State Parks of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. As of 2017 the division manages a total of 92 parks and historic sites plus the Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry , which together total more than 200,000 acres (81,000 ha). [ 1 ]
Cross Ranch State Park is a public recreation area covering 569 acres (230 ha) on the west bank of the Missouri River nine miles (14 km) south of Washburn in Oliver County, North Dakota. [3] The Nature Conservancy 's Cross Ranch Nature Preserve , a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) preserve which features a roaming herd of more than 200 adult bison , lies ...
Fort Stevenson State Park is a public recreation area located on a peninsula on Lake Sakakawea four miles (6.4 km) south of the community of Garrison in McLean County, North Dakota. [3] The state park 's 586 acres (237 ha) include a partial reconstruction of Fort Stevenson , the 19th-century Missouri River fort from which the park takes its name.
The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and south-western Manitoba that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River ...
July 4, 1961 (Williston vicinity: McKenzie and Williams: Most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri until 1867. Visitors included John James Audubon, George Catlin, Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, Sitting Bull, Karl Bodmer, and Jim Bridger.
Rough Rider State Park is a public recreation area located along the eastern banks of the Little Missouri River about two miles (3.2 km) south of Medora in Billings County, North Dakota. The state park is used for camping, horse camping, and canoeing. [ 4 ]