by Mike Kopp | Sep 9, 2022 | History, Little Missouri River, McKenzie County, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota history, North Dakota scenery, Road Trip, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Yellowstone River
What’s your pleasure? Bask in nature? Dive into deep history? What to do in Watford City for fun will fill your half-day. It’s like this: #1 Bask in nature Take 20 minutes and $20, head south on Highway 85. It’s only 15 miles or so, and...
by Mike Kopp | May 29, 2021 | Custer Trail Auto Tour, Dickinson, Hike, History, Little Missouri National Grasslands, Maah Daah Hey, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota history, North Dakota scenery, outdoors, Photography, Places to go, Things To Do
It’s a short drive for big benefits Pick a place. There are millions of acres to give you a healthy weekend. Ya know you wanna get out and feel free, right? Any weekend is a good time to lose the masks, fill your lungs, stretch your legs, lose that tension in...
by Mike Kopp | Feb 8, 2019 | History, Missouri River, Montana, North Dakota, North Dakota history, Yellowstone River
Not everyone can cross the liftbridge or walk the tunnel Can you? Afraid of heights? Afraid of the dark? Be bold and cross this liftbridge, enter the tunnel. If you do, you will say, “Wow.” Everybody does. It’s more than you expect, but it won’t last –time is...
by Mike Kopp | Apr 26, 2018 | journal, North Dakota history, Places to go, Then and now, Things To Do
Hard Labor More than 100 years ago, local farmers and ranchers hired on to dig by hand the Cartwright Tunnel for the Great Northern Railroad. It was part of its Montana Eastern Railway, an unfinished rail line that ran west of here in Montana. Using dynamite to...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 13, 2017 | Find Out Friday, journal, Small towns, Uncategorized
If the Cartwright tunnel is closing, what can I do to help keep it open? Yes, it could close, if the money can be found to hire a contractor to close it.The same money could also repair the tunnel to keep it open. That’s the word that community members are putting...
