Now’s the time The Achenbach Trail fits your physical endurance any time of the year – but it’s easiest in the spring. Temperatures are cool and shade is abundant. You can choose your difficulty of trail. No matter how many times we hike the trails and...
Summit Trail Some of the easiest hikes in the early season follow low land or follow Badlands ridges. Both have their advantage but we believe the Badlands ridges are at the top of easy hikes. There’s plenty to watch out for when you venture out in the Badlands for a...
Graduation Tonight, I sat at the local preschool graduation ceremony watching all my special little friends recite their poems and songs for their adoring fans out in the audience. These little ones were so confident, so “big” now! I watched mommies, daddies,...
Then and now — Arnegard School West of Watford City on Highway 85 is the little town of Arnegard, population about 160. At its peak, the town had about 250 people. Its claim to fame is the Stenehjem family from which the state gets its Attorney General Wayne...
Elkhorn Ranch, a refuge for a soon-to-be President How to get to the Elkhorn Ranch Off the beaten path – The Elkhorn Ranch exactly where Teddy Roosevelt wanted to be in 1883 – and so the Elkhorn Ranch became his refuge. He’d just suffered a string of losses,...