Top Things to do in North Dakota
Top Hotels in North Dakota
- 1. Jasper Hotel
- 2. Best Western Plus Kelly Inn & Suites
- 3. La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Fargo-Medical Center
- 4. Home2 Suites by Hilton Fargo, ND
- 5. Radisson Blu Fargo
- 6. Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Dickinson
- 7. Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Minot
- 8. Best Western Roosevelt Place Hotel
- 9. La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Bismarck
- 10. Sleep Inn & Suites Fargo Medical Center
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The 8 Best Visitor Centers in North Dakota, United States
If you’ve never thought much about North Dakota, maybe it’s time you started. Boasting miles and miles of hiking trails, including the Lewis and Clark trail, in addition to multiple museums, golf courses, casinos and amusement parks, North Dakota is bursting with things to do. Situated smack between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean, North Dakota was once called “America’s Most Affordable Vacation Site” by the American Automobile Association. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are two of North Dakota’s most famous residents. Tracing the courses of the Missouri and Columbia and rivers, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail stretches through 11 states. Thanks to their explorations, visitors to North Dakota with an interest in history can do some exploring of their own. Bismarck is not only the capital of the state, it’s also home to several Lewis and Clark historical sites including Fort Yates, where the pair stopped to trade with the Mandan Indians. For family fun in Bismarck, don’t miss the Dakota Zoo and Raging Rivers Waterpark. With more golf courses per capita than any other state (11 in Bismarck and Fargo alone), golf lovers are sure to find a course to their liking. Agri-tourism is also a popular activity in North Dakota, which ranks first in the production of spring wheat, durum wheat, sunflowers, barley, honey and other crops.
Restaurants in North Dakota
1. Visitors Information Center
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 4 reviews
The Jamestown Tourism Visitors' Information Center is open year-round to help tourists find information on all the attractions, lodging, campgrounds, restaurants and anything else in the Jamestown and Stutsman County areas of North Dakota. The center is located just outside the gates to the Frontier Village, near the World's Largest Buffalo and the National Buffalo Museum.
2. Bismarck-Mandan Convention and Visitors Bureau
3. Medora Visitor Center
4. Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 400 reviews
Our Visitors Center, the "Grain Elevator", located at exit 348 of Interstate 94 has bushels of information, maps, brochures as well as a gift shop. It is open year round so stop in and talk to our Visitor Center Travel Ambassadors. We provide free wifi, popcorn, and coffee for visitors...And the bathrooms are spick-and-span! The Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center is also home to the woodchipper from the movie 'FARGO.' Stop by and have your photo taken with the infamous woodchipper! We provide the (fake) leg and bomber hats to complete the photo op. Be sure to see the Celebrity Walk of Fame outside our visitors center with star signatures and hand & foot prints in cement.
Reviewed By worldtraveler1951-11 - Wellesley, United States
What a fun way to end my journey to all 50 states! I have no idea how they know that this would be my last, but at 11 am, I was already the 4th person that day to complete this milestone. What a hoot! I got the tee-shirt and took many pictures of my friend with the infamous woodchipper from the movie. Pippa was very friendly and helpful. I suggest anyone passing through Fargo stop by the visitor's center for local hospitality as well as good recommendations for other local sites.
5. Long X Trading Post Visitor Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 19 reviews
Reviewed By BeautifulBadlandsND - Wilton, United States
Start here, and explore the horizon. And there is plenty of horizon to explore! The Long X Visitor Center is the jumping off point to explore the Theodore Roosevelt National Park with its bison, bighorn sheep, deer and longhorns. It's the northern most point of the world famous Maah Daah Hey trail, a 140-mile long single track trail through the Badlands. Here you get your first tip for finding Native American History of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara nation at Fort Berthold. You learn of the rugged vastly unpopulated cowboy country of Western North Dakota. Visitors are encouraged to drive Highway 85, the Theodore Roosevelt Expressway south to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, then 15 miles farther south to Grassy Butte. Here, at Grassy Butte, leave the highway and travel the gravel roads south through petrified forests, stark bluffs, buttes, hills, ledges that form the amazing Badlands of North Dakota. If you choose to stay in the National Park, get out of your car and take a trail. They are rated easy to challenging. Some are only a mile or two. Others are two days long. Wherever you travel in the National Grasslands or the North Dakota Badlands, you will be in historic and well-maintained cowboy county. Ranching here is only slightly more modernized with pickup trucks and four-wheelers -- but cattle herds rule the region. These are not K-mart Cowboys you see. They are the real deal and their families have been ranching here for nearly two centuries. Ready for a return to civilization? Watford City has fine dining and luxury overnight accommodations. Along the eastern edge of the Grasslands, in Dickinson, white-linen tablecloth dining, fine wineries, local breweries, and cozy suites and hotel rooms with whirlpools and saunas are ready to help you revive. To the north, Williston is a bustling oil-town that will welcome you with a glimpse into what it takes to produce American energy independence. This is the Bakken, one of the top oil producing regions in the world. Seasonally, you can kayak or canoe the Little Missouri River, ride horses or mountain bikes on trails in the Badlands, hike, cross-country ski, or be a spectator as you witness an authentic powwow or rodeo.
6. Visit Minot
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 8 reviews
On behalf of the wonderful city of Minot, North Dakota, we are excited to extend an invitation to you to choose Minot for your next getaway. We hope that you will choose to "Discover the Magic" of our hospitable city. Visit Minot prides itself on providing our guests with the highest quality of customer service in the region. Minot is host to North Dakota's two largest events, the North Dakota State Fair and the Norsk Høstfest. Visit Minot is eager to assist you in any way that we can. Be sure to visit our website visitminot.org for the most up-to-date information about dining, shopping, and your overnight stay.
7. Rosebud Visitor Center
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1 reviews
8. Pilot Flying J
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 1 reviews
