Medora, ND – Roosevelt National Park

The steaks on a pitchfork at the Medora Musical

Here’s our rig at the campground in Medora

Raw steaks to be cooked on the pitchforks

Bison
Medora Musical
Prairie Dogs

We arrived in Medora Wednesday and went to the musical. The Medora Musical is ND’s #1 attraction drawing over 100,000 people each year. The show features a good band and a country, patriotic and gospel segment. The singers are talented and the show is pretty good. The show is built around Theodore Roosevelt because he lived in the area before he became president and claims that the time spent here prepared him for the presidency and also inspired him to start the National Parks system. He started land conservation here in the states.
Today we went to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The park encompasses 70,477 acres. We saw about 100 bison and a lot of prairie dogs. The prairie dogs have “towns” that are just feet from the road. We stopped and took a lot of time and just watched them. I read one time that people at the zoo spend only 20 seconds looking at each exhibit. This is the first time I had nowhere to go except back to the RV. We really took our time and enjoyed the park. We hiked and had a picnic on a cliff above a river where bison were sunbathing just below us. The badlands are just too beautiful to explain. We bought a national parks yearly pass. It allows us into any national parks in the country.