Attractions & Activities Listings

An active military fort from 1872-1877, Fort Seward now houses an interpretive center displaying artifacts excavated from the site's archaeological digs. A new computer kiosk takes you on an… Read More >

Native Americans occupied this area for more than 11,000 years. Remains of three Hidatsa villages with 210 depressions at the site. Home of Sakakawea, modern museum, visitor center and movie. Read More >

Breathtaking view of Lake Sakakawea, Badlands bluffs and the foundations of the underwater town of Sanish. Site was lookout used by William Clark when waiting to reunite with Meriwether Lewis. Read More >

The Pioneer Museum depicts the history and economic development of McKenzie County from the earliest times beginning with the largest petrified tree stump in North Dakota (60 million years old) to… Read More >

Site contains 65 million-year-old dinosaur fossils, including triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex. Read More >

Prairie Village & Museum features 23 historic buildings and six exhibition halls arranged around a quaint village square. Touring the museum is like taking a walk through a turn-of-the-century prairie… Read More >

The Long X Visitor Center is the central location for general visitor information. It is the information center about the area's cultural, geological, historical and geographic attractions. Featured… Read More >

You enter the center via the Badlands Dinosaur Museum which features 11 full-scale dinosaur skeletons inside and two outside, including fossils skeletons excavated from the area, one of the world's… Read More >

Since 1992, Pioneer Trials Regional Museum has worked to research, document and display the natural and cultural history of the region. The museum is a major cultural center for Bowman and the… Read More >