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Culture & Heritage
Themes
About Culture & Heritage Tourism
North Dakota’s visitors are able to use specialized icons to help plan their travel thematically by their specific areas of interest. Visitors can also identify providers of their particular interest area by recognizing the theme-based icons noted on highway signs, window markers or by a customized, color-coded state maps.
Blaze your own trail and discover North Dakota’s own brand of culture and heritage.
Look for their icons as you experience North Dakota's legendary history and present.
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Arts & Entertainment
Our calendar has more than 500 events, festivals, galleries and concerts. Plan to sing along, do a two-step or craft your own creation at one of North Dakota’s Arts & Entertainment venues. Check out the sites for plays, athletic events, galleries, special events, festivals and interpretive centers. See artisans at work, semi-pro teams at play, or find out how to participate in a powwow, Norwegian folk festival, or sing to the rafters at one of our concert venues!
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Heritage & Heroes
True grit and western heroes fill North Dakota’s history pages. Learn how today’s North Dakota was shaped by its “Heritage & Heroes” including American Indians, members of the U.S. military, railroad workers, and European immigrants who became the farmers, ranchers and cowboys of Dakota Territory. Smell the comforting fires of an earth lodge, relive pioneer experiences on a wagon train, or catch the view from a military fort. History comes alive in North Dakota.
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Lewis & Clark Trail
Captain Meriwether Lewis called them “the handsomest plains I ever beheld.” North Dakota still boasts breathtaking scenery and our hospitality continues to leave a lasting impression on our visitors. Lewis & Clark have done all of the hard work, charting and exploring the West, and now you can have all of the fun! Take your own journey to a powwow, drape yourself in a buffalo robe, or meander through remains of the home of Sakakawea, the Lewis & Clark Expedition’s legendary Indian interpreter and guide.
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Ranches Farms & Gardens
North Dakota’s ranches, farms & gardens provide meals for millions. As the state’s leading industry, agriculture production creates enough beef to make 2-billion hamburgers, enough wheat for 108-billion sandwiches, and enough durum wheat for 93-pounds of pasta for every American. Relax, reflect and have a feast on the eyes at one of North Dakota’s iconic ranches, farms or gardens.
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Wildlife & Wonders
In North Dakota, you really can see where the buffalo roam, along with deer, antelope, elk and an abundance of other wildlife! Plan a fishing trip to North Dakota’s fish-filled waters, unearth a long-lost dinosaur bone on a paleontology dig, or just take a relaxing drive on one of our state’s scenic byways and backways. You’ll wonder why you waited so long to visit!
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