Medora Overlook

Little Missouri River

This is the first pullout on the Scenic Loop Drive and allows you to overlook the town of Medora and the Little Missouri River below. The town was named after the wife of the entrepreneurial Frenchman the Marquis de Morès who was a cattle rancher and key player in the area in the 1880s. Prior to the founding of Medora there was the lawless settlement of Little Missouri on the west side of the river where Theodore Roosevelt arrived when he first visited the badlands.