Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Medora, ND May 15&16

Hiking in TR Nat'l Park

So the forecast and the long range forecast for Yellowstone was really very sobering so we decided to go north to Roosevelt NP in North Dakota.  We've spent two lovely days here.  This is probably one of the least visited NPs in the country because it really is on the road to nowhere but nonetheless a really neat park.  We got another great campsite and had hardly setup before another bison arrived to greet us.  The area is different from the Badlands and the Black Hills but still has a other worldly look to it.  Giant mounds rising from the earth surrounded by sagebrush, wildflowers and prairie.  I can only imagine what the settlers thought as they came upon this place.  We were able to bike part of the wildlife loop, complete some short hikes (at the ranger's suggestion, and we always do what the ranger suggests) and finally see our first coyote.  Carole spent a bit of time trying to get her GoPro movie camera into a prairie dog hole, no joy there.
Current plan is to go east and then into the upper peninsula of Michigan and then into Canada.  We are watching the weather carefully and are grateful not to be further south where the tornados are a real threat today.

Carole's Go Pro on her biking helmet on top of prairie dog home!