First trip to the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and I can not wait to get back. The geography is more severe and the trail the best I have been on in the park.
Just under a mile of self guided nature trail ends in a dramatic basin where one has the option to turn back and relive the education enlightenment or continue another 3 or so miles up onto the ridge line.
Passing through trees where you forget where you are one emerges in open fields with expansive views of the badlands.
Climbing on the trail leads to a pass where the trail narrows to under 5 feet in with and several hundred feet dropping down on either side highlighted by the dramatic layering and evolutionary power.
We stopped on a bench and rejoiced at this world we live in.
Reaching a crossroads between the park access road and the trail we selected to get out of the never ending bentonite mud and see the damage that the flooding of 2011 had wrought on the park road.
Just under a mile of self guided nature trail ends in a dramatic basin where one has the option to turn back and relive the education enlightenment or continue another 3 or so miles up onto the ridge line.
Passing through trees where you forget where you are one emerges in open fields with expansive views of the badlands.
Climbing on the trail leads to a pass where the trail narrows to under 5 feet in with and several hundred feet dropping down on either side highlighted by the dramatic layering and evolutionary power.
We stopped on a bench and rejoiced at this world we live in.
Reaching a crossroads between the park access road and the trail we selected to get out of the never ending bentonite mud and see the damage that the flooding of 2011 had wrought on the park road.
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