Fort Ransom - Fort Ransom, ND

 

Hiking to the sunset vista last night, we met two people from Wisconsin who were going to go to Teddy Roosevelt on their way home.  I, of course, suddenly felt the need to go to Teddy Roosevelt too.  It was actually a National Park, 60 miles down the road we were already taking.  We took a nice 40 mile scenic tour of the park with the requisite bison and prairie dogs with a few wild horses and wolves tossed in.  From there, it was North Dakota prairies for 300 miles to Fort Ransom State Park.  This is a park straight from the twilight zone.  It took about a dozen turns to get to the deserted town of Fort Ransom and then another dozen to get to the park.  The park itself is virtually abandoned.  We may never get out again!

Our site is on the banks of the Sheyenne River, and an evening sun shower, complete with a brilliant rainbow topped the evening.  Tomorrow, we will try to retrace our path to escape back into the real world for a fairly short trip to South Dakota which will mark the halfway point in our trek from Seattle to Boston.