Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

In June of 2010 we visited Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Unit). Like Badlands National Park, it's a beautiful place of bentonitic clay and sandstone badlands, open prairie grasslands, and wildlife. It had been an unusually wet spring and the park was much greener than normal. We expect to return to the park, and also to visit the South Unit.

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A departing storm at sunset in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, U.S.

A rainbow over the clay hills at sunset in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

The Milk River and lots of clay on a rainy evening in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, U.S.

Wind and water erode the park's soft clay into bizarre forms. A space alien with big hands?

Wind and water erode the park's soft clay into bizarre forms. A mask? A melting face?