Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Looking to stop in TRNP in early-mid August as part of a longer 3 month trip. A few questions for those who have been there. Is both the north and south park worth visiting? We like to spend th...
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I went to both of them last year. We did not camp as we were really just blowing through without the trailer. That being said we did drive the loop at the southern one and I would have liked to have done some more hiking but I think a couple days would have been plenty. Same with the northern unit. The campgrounds when we were there looked fine but were not full we were there in the middle of the week in August. Unsure if that is the norm or not.
Not sure which way you are coming from or going to but the Badlands in South Dakota, the Minuteman Missile Park just north of the Badlands NE entrance was interesting (if you do go there make sure and get there early in the morning if you want to take the tour of the command center as it fills up apparently by 8am and they only do one a day, we missed it but the site was still quite interesting and we hit a self guided tour of a silo unfortunately you don't get to go down in the silo. Wall Drug, Chadron NE (south of the Badlands) has the Fur Trappers Museum which I thought was awesome. Then you have the Black Hills Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wind Cave NP, there is another cave park there but cant remember name, Custer State Park. I know all of those are certainly significantly farther south than TRNP but if going through that area on the way to or from
Not sure which way you are coming from or going to but the Badlands in South Dakota, the Minuteman Missile Park just north of the Badlands NE entrance was interesting (if you do go there make sure and get there early in the morning if you want to take the tour of the command center as it fills up apparently by 8am and they only do one a day, we missed it but the site was still quite interesting and we hit a self guided tour of a silo unfortunately you don't get to go down in the silo. Wall Drug, Chadron NE (south of the Badlands) has the Fur Trappers Museum which I thought was awesome. Then you have the Black Hills Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wind Cave NP, there is another cave park there but cant remember name, Custer State Park. I know all of those are certainly significantly farther south than TRNP but if going through that area on the way to or from
