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Latest News
Don't miss out on any of the great activities happening in North Dakota. Stay informed. Click on the links below to read or watch the latest stories about North Dakota.
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Best 4 Places to Go Downhill Skiing in North Dakota
Are you looking for a place to go downhill skiing in North Dakota this year? Click here to find out more!
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Top 5 Places to Go Cross Country Skiing in North Dakota
Are you looking for a few good places to go cross country skiing in North Dakota? I know of several located within different parks across the state. It will cost you $5 per vehicle to gain access to the parks and most are open daily, year-round. Click here to find them!
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6 Best Cities for Starting Over in 2012
If you are looking for a fresh start in 2012, check out this article provided by Yahoo Finance.
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Confident retailers, eateries flock to Grand Forks
The past year has been busy with openings and expansions of restaurants and retailers in the Grand Forks area, and according to business owners there is an appetite here for more. Click here for complete details!
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Pumpkins a bigger slice of pie for farmers
Click here to read how Nelson’s Pumpkin Patch is an example of agri-tourism, a small but growing part of the U.S. agricultural economy.
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Best Things to do in North Dakota for the Holidays
One trip to North Dakota and you'll understand why it's known as the friendliest and safest state to visit. In fact, from agricultural products to quality of life - North Dakota is often at the top of the charts. Click here to see what there is to do in North Dakota!
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North Dakota: The Little State That Could
Read this post to see if you agree that North Dakota is one of the best states in the nation!
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Summer Travel News
Listen to North Dakota Tourism's Director, Sara Otte Coleman as she gives her outlook on travel in North Dakota!
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8th annual Governor's Photo Contest kicks off
Gov. Jack Dalrymple and the North Dakota Tourism Division are excited to announce their continued partnership with AAA for the Governor's 2011 North Dakota Photo Contest. The contest will run from May 11 through August 31, following North Dakota Tourism Week events.
Launched in 2004, the North Dakota Governor's Photo Contest encourages North Dakota amateur photographers to submit photos, capturing the unique things to see and do in North Dakota. Winning photos are used in North Dakota Tourism's marketing materials and newsletters.
Click here for complete contest rules.
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Grand Forks Culinary Tour: Winnipeg's Fave Weekend Getaway
Grand Forks, North Dakota and its sister community of East Grand Forks, Minnesota (a hop across the Red River) have long been a favourite weekend getaway destination for the 700,000 or so folks who live in Winnipeg and the surrounding area. So why would people from a big city head to a place where the population is clawing its way up to 100,000? Click here to find out!
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Why North Dakota May Be the Best State in the Country to Live In
While many states are confronting severe budget shortfalls and dragging economies, North Dakota has a different sort of problem. It's stuck deciding how best to deal with a budget surplus. Yes, a surplus. North Dakota's balance sheet is so strong it recently reduced individual income taxes and property taxes by a combined $400 million, and is debating further cuts. Click here for complete article!
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Technology Helps North Dakota Visitors Become Legendary
Using up-to-date technology gives visitors to North Dakota the edge on creating their own legendary experiences as they follow in the footsteps of historical giants. Click here for the complete article.
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Grab popcorn and parka for film
Fargo's historic downtown is humming with activity, including a booming film festival every March. Click here for complete details!
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Delta Sky
Delta Sky magazine features North Dakota story. Check out these links for the full story.
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North Dakota in the #1 spot for job growth from 2005-2010
North Dakota saw an increase of 3,200 jobs in the last year alone.Click here for complete story.
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50 Awesome Vacations in 50 states
If you could visit one thing in every state in the U.S., what would it be? That's the challenge we took on, and here are our recommendations, just in time for the summer travel season. Happy trails!
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See new places through pedal power
Thousands of cyclists participate in bike tours, sightseeing trips that cover hundreds of miles.
Like thousands of other bicyclists who take part in nonprofit trips that can cover hundreds of miles in a few days or a week, Wilson enjoys visiting new places under his own power.
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Upbeat regional tourism outlook for 2010
As the recession starts to fade and the recovery begins, the national tourism industry is looking forward to a stronger year after taking its lumps last year.
The regional outlook for the 2010 tourism season also looks to be improved in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, three states that fared better than the rest of the nation last year.
Click here for complete article provided by Prairie Business.
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North Dakota Golf Trail Sets the State Apart
North Dakota courses (Hawktree in 2000 and Bully Pulpit in 2005) won two best-new awards in a five-year period. The golf - like the state itself - is an unspoiled frontier adventure, taking full advantage of landscape as scenic as any that can be found in a place with wide rivers, towering rugged mountains, and idyllic lakes. There's also horseback riding, hiking trails, fishing, striated-rock canyons, national parks, American historical landmarks from the dawn of the Republic, and wildlife preserves; in other words, plenty of activity for any vacationing family.
Click here to read complete article provided by Cybergolf.
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Tourism Training in Watford City
Tourism officials meet with Northwest Tourism Partners on the first of five workshops that will be held throughout North Dakota. Click here for the complete video!
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More Visitors at TRNP in 2009
Despite a weak economy, 2009 brought more visitors to national parks across the country, including Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Medora.
"In a lot of cases, park visitation tends to go up when the economy is bad," said Eileen Andes, chief of interpretation and public affairs at TRNP. "That could have to do with value. People are looking for value these days and national parks really are a good value."
In 2008, about 516,800 visitors stopped at TRNP and though 2009 numbers will not be finalized until the end of February, about 579,000 were reported to have visited the park.
The U.S. has 58 national parks and of those, TRNP ranks 31st for visitation numbers.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina took the top seat for visitation, sitting at about 9.5 million for 2009.
Campgrounds in TRNP also saw a spike in occupants.
"In a normal year our campground, especially the South Unit, would fill maybe fewer than a half dozen times in a summer season," Andes said. "But this year, we went at one point over 40 nights in a row where the campground was full. That is really incredible."
Judie Chrobak-Cox, TRNP's South Unit district interpreter, also said full campgrounds generally only occur about a dozen times a season and this year was an exception.
Butch Street, management analyst for the National Park Service, said he attributes most of the increase to foreign visitors.
Street said many foreign travelers will visit up to 40 parks during their vacation, adding to the increased numbers more so than domestic visitors do.
"Anecdotally, it does seem like there is a little bit of an increase in foreign visitation and that's because how the dollar is doing against other countries," said Kathy Kupper, spokesperson for the NPS in Washington, D.C.
Street said the presidential inauguration brought an additional 2 million visitors through the Park Service in 2009.
Kupper said several factors are a driving force in higher national park visitor numbers, one being "nature deficit disorder."
Kupper said the NPS feels another driving factor in increased numbers is the desire to take "long weekend vacations."
"You can make it as economical as you'd like as a vacation," Kupper said. "It's easier to get away for these shorter trips than the grand two- week vacation."
Despite other states reporting higher park numbers paired with lower accommodation numbers, North Dakota's stayed parallel.
Heather LeMoine, marketing manager for the North Dakota Tourism Division, said accommodations statewide put North Dakota ahead of the game.
State parks and national parks had a good year, LeMoine said. "We know North Dakota was really just defying the nation in how well the accommodation sector was doing."
LeMoine said North Dakota was the only state that didn't have to discount hotel rooms in order to fill hotels.
The U.S. Travel Association cited 2009 as one of travel's most challenging periods, according to a North Dakota Tourism Division's newsletter.
NDTD reported that in the third quarter of 2009, the state saw 326,110 visitors to the state's national park, as compared to 278,629 in the third quarter of 2008.
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North Dakota - NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams features Bismarck and Commerce's own Talent Marketing Coordinator Sarah Johnson in this spot from 12/5/2009. Click here for the complete video
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A bonanza of birds
As you enter the fertile, rolling Red River valley in eastern North Dakota, you are greeted by a sign: "Bonanzaville."
Though it applies specifically to a local fairground, the word aptly sums up the expectations of visiting hunters.
As I drove west on I-94 to Bismarck recently for a few days of hunting, I thought it might also serve as a new slogan for the Peace Garden State.
North Dakota has long produced fortunes in corn and wheat. And there is increasing activity in oil and gas.
But with due respect to such commerce, the wild riches of the prairies and potholes are far bigger tourism draws and arguably more valuable.
Click here for the complete article provided by Journal Sentinel.
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N.D. agritourism just getting started
A tourist attraction can look a lot like a dairy farm, a grape vineyard or a cattle ranch.
Ordinary farm life isn't so ordinary to many. Yet North Dakota is just getting started when it comes to agritourism - the business of combining agriculture with tourism.
"It's just the perfect merger of our state's two largest industries," said Sara Otte Coleman, director of the North Dakota Tourism Division.
Click here for the complete article from Bismarck Tribune.
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Warm welcome for businesses in North Dakota
The US state, North Dakota, is attracting companies with its robust economy and relative stability. Click here for the complete article.
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Where the Jobs Are
One state has the national unemployment average beat. Insight with North Dakota governor John Hoeven (R). Governor Hoeven speaks with CNBC. Click here to watch the video!
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Out on the Road in North Dakota
Summer is here and one way would-be travelers can save money and still see some interesting sights is by taking a road trip in North Dakota. Click here for complete details.
Article provided by The Jamestown Sun.
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Where are the jobs? North Dakota
North Dakota companies are recruiting workers from around the nation. The state has escaped the economic meltdown plaguing the rest of the country. Click here for the complete article.
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Postcard from Bismarck
Want to make jokes about North Dakota? Sure, the state's got three times as many cattle as people, and a typical day in January is a balmy 20°F. But the folks who live here, unlike those in many other parts of the country, have jobs. And not only haven't they felt the bite of the housing-market collapse, but their houses have actually inched up in value.
Click here for the complete article.
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Minot's marketing team goes mainstream
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users will have the opportunity over the coming months to add a new friend to their network - the Minot Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Click here for the complete details.
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Summer Travel
After being pent up all winter dealing with the snow and freezing cold temperatures, its not a surprise that North Dakotans are excited for summer. Click here to watch the video!
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`Passport to North Dakota` Opens Eyes to State Tourism
The state Tourism Department is counting on two new tools to bring tourists to North Dakota this summer and inspire residents to stay close to home.
Tesoro Refinery donated $25,000 to the Historical Society to distribute an updated "Passport to North Dakota History" booklet.
It includes sketches and photos of more than 60 historic sites, state parks, scenic byways, and wildlife refuges.
The Historical Society also announced a new program called History on Call, which offers narration about the historic sites in the Passport that travelers can access by phone.
"Both these tools will definitely help direct travelers to our attractions which these historic attractions really do tell the unique North Dakota story," says Sara Otte Coleman, of the ND Department of Tourism. "They showcase our legends and the history that really makes our part of the world legendary."
The US Forest Service donated $15,000 for the History on Call Program.
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