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Things to do across North Dakota

North Dakota's capital along the Missouri River

  • Sightseeing
  • Theatre & Events
  • Sport & Outdoor
  • Museums
  • Nearest airport: BIS, about 45 miles
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North Dakota's capital along the Missouri River. This guide covers places to visit across North Dakota, by category and on a map.

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Three to see first in North Dakota

Sightseeing
Local Gem

North Dakota Tourism Division

Free

North Dakota's state tourism office in Bismarck, promoting travel and publishing the official state travel guide.

Bismarck, ND

Sightseeing
Quirky Fun

Enchanted Highway

Free

Drive 32 miles of prairie road past seven giant scrap metal sculptures, from Geese in Flight at I-94 to the town of Regent.

Regent, ND

Theatre & Events
Date Night

Fargo Theatre

Under $25

Catch an independent film, classic screening or live show inside a restored 1926 art deco movie house on Broadway.

Fargo, ND

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Sightseeing
Local Gem

North Dakota Tourism Division

Free

North Dakota's state tourism office in Bismarck, promoting travel and publishing the official state travel guide.

Sightseeing
Quirky Fun

Enchanted Highway

Free

Drive 32 miles of prairie road past seven giant scrap metal sculptures, from Geese in Flight at I-94 to the town of Regent.

Theatre & Events
Date Night

Fargo Theatre

Under $25

Catch an independent film, classic screening or live show inside a restored 1926 art deco movie house on Broadway.

Sightseeing
History Buff

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park

Under $25

Walk a reconstructed Mandan earthlodge village and the rebuilt Custer House at a frontier fort site above the Missouri River.

Sightseeing
History Buff

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Free

Walk through a partly rebuilt fur trading post on the upper Missouri, with a museum inside the red-roofed Bourgeois House.

Sport & Outdoor
Family Favorite

International Peace Garden

Under $25

Stroll formal flower gardens, a floral clock and a cactus conservatory in a park that straddles the North Dakota and Manitoba border.

Sightseeing
History Buff

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Free

Enter a reconstructed earthlodge and walk prairie trails past the lodge depressions of Hidatsa villages on the Knife River.

Theatre & Events
Family Favorite

Medora Musical

$50+

Watch a summer outdoor western music revue with live horses on stage and a firework finale at the Burning Hills Amphitheatre.

Museums
Family Favorite

North American Bison Discovery Center

Under $25

See two small bison herds, galleries on bison history and the 26-foot World's Largest Buffalo statue next door in Jamestown.

Museums
Free

North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum

Free

Walk four galleries of North Dakota history, from dinosaur fossils and early peoples to the present day, on the State Capitol grounds.

Sightseeing
Free

North Dakota State Capitol

Free

Tour the 21-story Art Deco capitol called the Skyscraper on the Prairie and ride up to the 18th-floor observation deck.

Sport & Outdoor
Outdoor Adventure

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

$25–$50

Drive and hike through North Dakota badlands where bison and prairie dogs roam and Theodore Roosevelt once ranched.

Sightseeing
Free

World's Largest Buffalo Monument

Free

Stand beneath Dakota Thunder, a 26-foot-tall, 60-ton concrete bison that has watched over Jamestown's Frontier Village since 1959.

Museums
History Buff

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

$25–$50

The presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt, on a butte above Medora near the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

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About

About North Dakota

North Dakota lies in the northern Great Plains of the United States, bordering Canada. Its capital, Bismarck, sits along the Missouri River and is home to attractions such as the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum and the Dakota Zoo. The North Dakota Tourism Division, based in Bismarck, is the state's tourism marketing office, promoting the state's parks, historic sites and communities under its Be Legendary campaign.

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