Travel Information for North Dakota Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a North Dakota attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a North Dakota state park, this is where you will find it.
Pick up the trail of America’s greatest legends like Lewis and Clark, Sakakawea, Custer, Sitting Bull and Theodore Roosevelt in NORTH DAKOTA and follow in their footsteps. North Dakota has many opportunities in state parks, forests and water areas for outdoor activities like hiking, biking, canoeing, camping, boating, skiing or snowmobiling, golfing, wildlife viewing and horseback riding. It has multiple cross-country ski trails and legendary fishing and hunting.
The State Capitol building in the capital BISMARCK is known as the "Skyscraper on the Prairie"; Buckstop Junction is a reconstructed village containing actual buildings from around the area reminiscent of the late 1800s and early 1900s while the Five Nations Art Depot at the historic Burlington Northern Railroad Depot on Main Street in MANDAN is home to Native American arts and crafts; visitors can discover the legacy of the frontiersmen, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, at the North Dakota Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center.
BOTTINEAU is the gateway to the Turtle Mountains and to Lake Metigoshe; an early schoolhouse is now the Bottineau County Historical Museum with collections of memorabilia from pioneer families.
At DICKINSON the Dakota Dinosaur Museum houses 10 full-scale dinosaurs; the Ukrainian Cultural Institute is a living tribute to the heritage of the Ukrainian people who settled in North Dakota.
The International Peace Garden at DUNSEITH straddles the longest unfortified border in the world between US and Canada; Wee’l Turtle is a giant statue made of 2,000 tire rims.
At ELGIN The Medicine Rock State Historic Site preserves an area of religious significance to Indian peoples.
At FARGO and WEST FARGO, Bonanzaville has 15 acres of historic buildings, ranging from a sod house to a church, court house and country store; other attractions include the Children's Museum at Yunker Farm which offers hands-on discovery, Thunder Road Family Fun Park, the state-of-the-art Red River Zoo, and the Roger Maris Museum which traces the career of legendary Fargo athlete Roger Maris.
Fort Abercrombie at ABERCROMBIE, now a State Historic Site, was besieged by the Sioux for six weeks in 1862. FORT TOTTEN State Historic Site, which dates from the era of Indian wars in the 1860s is an "outdoor museum" of 17 original historic buildings; Sully's Hill National Game Preserve is one of four refuges managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for American bison and elk.
The Sitting Bull Burial State Historic Site at FORT YATES marks the original grave of the Hunkpapa Sioux leader. The Heritage Village in GRAND FORKS preserves the history of the northern Red River Valley with weekend tours of pioneer buildings.
The Grand Cities (Grand Forks, North Dakota, & East Grand Forks, Montana) are also home to many art and entertainment venues at the Chester Fritz Auditorium, Empire Arts Center, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Midway between Bismarck (the state capital) and Fargo (the state's largest city), JAMESTOWN is home to the National Buffalo Museum with "White Cloud", a rare albino buffalo, Frontier Village, and a reconstructed old west town; visitors can travel for a week on the authentic Fort Seaward Wagon Trails; other attractions include the North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame.
KILLDEER is the hub of Cowboy Country, and gateway to the Killdeer Mountains which features the Medicine Hole, the Little Missouri Primitive State Park, the Badlands Trail Rides and the Lewis & Clark Trail.
The romantic history of the Wild West lives on in historic MEDORA now a frontier tourist town where visitors can enjoy the Medora Musical at the Burning Hills Amphitheater; tour the Chateau deMores, the historic 28-room home of the French cattle baron and his wife, Medora; or try the Maah Daah Hey Trail a 100-mile hiking, horseback and mountain bicycle trail that winds its way through the wilderness of the North Dakota Badlands.
Fort Ransom State Historic Site, RANSOM, marks the location of a 200-man military post built in 1867.
Assumption Abbey, a Bavarian Romanesque structure in RICHARDTON, was completed in 1909.
RUGBY is the Geographical Center of North America, with the exact spot marked by a cairn at the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and North Dakota Highway 3; attractions are the Pioneer Village and Museum, the Pierce County Courthouse, the Great Northern Railway Depot, and The Victorian Dress Museum.
The Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site at TANTON has prehistoric and historic archeological objects recovered from park sites relating to Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indians.
Fort Mandan Historic Site, WASHBURN, was the winter home of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-05; the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center takes visitors on a “voyage of discovery”.
There are two historic sites at WILLISTON: Fort Buford, a site that preserves remnants of a vital frontier plains military post, and Fort Union Trading Post.
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