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Road Information
The North Unit Scenic Drive is open with limited access. Due to extreme slumping, the road is closed at mile 6. The road is still accessible to bikers and hikers. There is no known date when the road will re-open.
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Visitor Center Summer Hours in Affect
The three visitor centers at Theodore Roosevelt National Park will be open 8 am to 6 pm local time begining Saturday May 26, 2012.
In Honor of a President
When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, he was a skinny, young, spectacled dude from New York. He could not have imagined how his adventure in this remote and unfamiliar place would forever alter the course of the nation. The rugged landscape and strenuous life that TR experienced would help shape a conservation policy that we still benefit from today.
Features
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Theodore Roosevelt Social Media
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is experimenting with new ways to bring the park experience to visitors. We are currently on Twitter and Facebook
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Wildlife Viewing
Many watchable wildlife species inhabit Theodore Roosevelt National Park including bison, elk, prairie dogs, and quite a few more.
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Discover the Badlands of Theodore Roosevelt NP
Theodore Roosevelt said the badlands were "so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.
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Did You Know?
Rocks that make up the petrified forest in the park's South Unit came from huge dawn redwood, magnolia, ginkgo, cypress, date and palm trees that once provided shade from steamy heat 60 million years ago. More...