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THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK
Theodore Roosevelt National Park - The only national park in the United States named after an outstanding person. Under the influence of streams that fell from the tops of the Rocky Mountains, sedimentary rocks slowly settled, subsequently turning into the channel of the Little Missouri and its tributaries. The history of North Dakota's Badlands began long before that - more than 65 million years ago. The results of erosion are amazing. Currently, one can see here shattered rocks, winding ravines, and domed hills. Multi-colored rock layers stretch for miles, forming horizontal stripes.
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Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, who later founded five national parks and contributed to the emergence of the United States Forest Service, first came to Dakota in 1883 to hunt bison. But he was so imbued with the cowboy lifestyle that he acquired a ranch and began to raise livestock. Over the next 13 years, the president returned here again, eventually becoming a staunch fighter for the protection of nature. Severe weather conditions taught the future president to respect natural resources, tempering his body and character. “I would never have become president if I had not been to North Dakota,” Roosevelt wrote.
The park itself is very quiet, calm, with a characteristic landscape of the wild west. The park is inhabited by numerous representatives of wildlife - bison, pronghorns, elks, white-tailed and black-tailed deer, wild horses, bighorns, as well as small mammals, amphibians and reptiles. If there is enough rainfall in the spring, wild plants bloom on the plains and along the river banks. The park is not crowded, and you can enjoy solitude and solitude, just like Theodore Roosevelt did.
Official name - THEODORE ROOSEVELT National Park
Mailing Address: PO Box 7
Medora, ND 58645
Area: 70,446 acres
Coordinates: 46°58′N 103°27′W
Established - November 10, 1978
Attendance - 749,389 people per year
