By state

National parks in North Dakota

Every National Park Service unit in North Dakota, scored and ranked by our Experience Score.

National Scenic Trail · MI

At nearly 4,800 miles across eight states, the North Country National Scenic Trail is less a single destination than a lifetime project.

National Park · ND

Theodore Roosevelt is the badlands park that actually delivers on wildlife.

National Historic Site · ND

Knife River punches well above its weight for a free site.

National Historic Trail · IA

At nearly 4,900 miles across 16 states, this is less a destination than a framework for road-tripping American history.

National Historic Site · MT

Fort Union is a genuinely undervisited gem sitting on the Montana-North Dakota border where the fur trade era comes alive in concrete, human terms.