After consulting with the park ranger we drove dirt roads to Elkhorn Ranch.
Along the way we caught sight of this farmer carrying a bale of hay.

The ranch was one of TR's ranches.


We continued on thru lots of badlands


We think ND has it all over SD's badlands but it is spread out over thousands of square miles.
We entered into MT briefly for fuel for the car and us. We ate at Cattle-ac Saloon. Loved the name and it was a very good lunch.
We were geocaching along the way and decided to leave Ft. Union for another time.
Continuing on we came to the North Unit. It took us a couple of hours to drive the 14 miles in and back out.

We counted 14 big horns on this point.



On our way out we spotted this bull


We continued south back toward home and after hitting the construction area on 85 we sure are glad we opted to see the northern part of the state this way. Back at Medora we got a quick dinner of buffalo burger (guess it was seeing all those buffalo) then did a short drive on the loop again before it got too dark.
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