Travel Day -> North Dakota

North Dakota is a midwestern U.S. state dominated by the Great Plains. Its eastern city of Fargo showcases Native American and modern art at the Plains Art Museum. The area's immigrant history is honored at the Scandinavian Heritage Association in the city of Minot. The Great Plains give way to the rugged Badlands near the border with Montana, where Theodore Roosevelt National Park spans the Little Missouri River.

Dakota is a Native American Sioux word that roughly means “friend” or “ally.” 





Abbreviation: ND

Capital: Bismarck

Temperature: 42 degrees, partly cloudy

Time: 1:00 PM (Most of ND is Central Time Zone)

Some Counties are Mountain Time:



Nickname: 

"Peace Garden State"

North Dakota is called the Peace Garden State because of the International Peace Garden, which sits on the border between North Dakota and the Canadian province of Manitoba: 
  • The garden
    The garden was dedicated in 1932 to symbolize the friendship between the United States and Canada. It's a pledge by the two countries to never go to war with each other.
"Flickertail" 
North Dakota is known as the Flickertail State because of the Richardson ground squirrel, which is abundant in the state and is known for flicking its tail while running or entering its burrow. 


  • Population: 783,926 (PA 12.8m)

Size: 70,762 square miles (PA 46,000)

Cost of living:  $30,000 (PA $49,040)

Minimum wage: $7.25

Statehood: November 2, 1889

State Flag: 


The North Dakota flag shows a bald eagle holding an olive branch, which is a symbol of peace, and a bundle of arrows in its claws. In the eagle's mouth is a ribbon with the Latin words “E Pluribus Unum” which means “many uniting into one.”


State Bird:
Western Meadowlark


State Flower:
Prairie Rose

State Tree:
American Elm

State Mammal:
North Dakota does not have an official state mammal, but it does have an honorary state equine- the Nokota horse:



State Quarter:



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Great Plains

North Dakota on the map

Bismarck, ND

Fargo, ND

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK

Knife River Indian Villages

Fort Union Fur Trading Post

The Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm, also known as Bagg Bonanza Farm or F. A. Bagg Farm, is a former bonanza farm in Richland County, North Dakota, United States. Operated between about 1915 and 1935, the farm of the Baggs encompasses as many as 7,000 acres (2,800 ha), and was operated virtually like a factory according to modern business practices of the period. The surviving farm complex is now owned by a local non-profit organization and operates as a museum.


Missouri River

Missouri River

Honey Bee

Wildlife Refuge

Lignite

White Butte

Cream of wheat

Mr Bubble

Fort Mandan


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