This park allows every season to shine & winter may very well be the best time to stop be…read more Once the lake freezes over, there's something magical about walking on the water. The landscape is spectacular & we frequently see wildlife. The campground is also pretty good.It's a clean, well-kept park.

Nice upcoming state park. They have planted many trees which are starting to fill out. The camp…read moresites are a bit close together so may lack some privacy on busy weekend. Shower facilities are newer with hot water and water pressure! Oh yeah..... Boat landing and beach area is very nice. Wr are many deer, birds, gophers running around the property. Park is well taken care of. We will be back and fish the big lake some more

A rather nice park for the pooches to burn energy & be social, with appropriate sections & benches…read more We will be taking a temporary break from parks and groomers, (no fault of the park), due to the doggie virus going around, as we encountered another family with a sick dog at home. My advice would definitely be to head out here but give the sick pups a chance to get things sorted to avoid the spread, according to the vet.

The Dakota Bark Park is a pretty decent dog park. It has three areas; small, medium and general…read more It's very spacious so the dogs have plenty of room to run around and chase each other. There are a few shady slots for those warmer days too, but only in the general park (which is the largest). The only real negative is that that water fountain doesn't work, so be sure to bring your pups water to drink. There are dog bags provided. It's a little hard to find but it's worth looking for since its one of the only place I found in Minot where the dogs can run around freely. Overall, this is a good park for the pups.

This is easily among my favorite places to camp in NoDak during summer & has one of the few groomed…read morewinter trails. We were able to do a March hike on well-packed snow.The yurt, which is available during winter, books up fast. There's a very detailed and still accurate review below, so, I won't repeat all of that, I'll just say it all still holds true, and the mosquitoes have only multiplied since then! The hiking trails are quite nice & I love the layout being along the water's edge. The water is surprisingly clear, but keep an eye out for erosion, those ledges are no joke.

Cross ranch campground may be my new favorite campground in the local area around Bismarck. It's…read morenot teaming with all the updates like most campgrounds around these days. No annoying street lights. No paved roads, it's just you and nature. Set right against the Missouri river it's beautiful and at night it's almost like you can see every star in the sky. There is no light pollution here at all! There is a little registration store here for purchasing things. You can rent paddle boats and kayaks. There are sites here for rvs, primitive sites for tents, and cabins to rent. This would be a perfect place for a family reunion. This place would be perfect if it just had a more centrally located shower facility.

I came to Eagles Park for the Universal Playground because of a pediatrics project. This…read moreplayground is hands down, a child's dream come true. Universal Playground: On top of your normal slides and playground sets, there are also zipline bucket seats, multiple people seasaws, roll over tables, sensory wall, many unique types of swings, a big spinning cup and a mini rock climbing wall. The flooring is about 70% rubber and 30% tanbark. My descriptions do not do it justice. Probably better to see for yourself. Pretty much the main feature here. Inside Shelter: Can be reserved in advance. Bathrooms are located in here, so this might be a problem if it is rented by another party. In my opinion, it can comfortably fit about 30-40 people. There are tables and chairs inside for use. Parking: bit limited in the lot, but lots of street parking Outside shelters: There are 3 private outside shelters. 1 super big one and 2 smaller ones. Grass field: Not as big as some other parks, but big enough for a children's playground

Kids love this place! There's so much to do! This is probably the most modern playground in the…read moreMandan area. It is clean, sometimes crowded, but pretty spacious. I wish there was more shaded areas and seats for adults to sit but overall it's great! You could keep kids entertained here for over an hour.

We're visiting from Texas and came by this park and I knew the kids would love it!! There's a huge…read moreempty space we used to fly kites and then they enjoyed playing on all of the fire department themed playground equipment. This is so much different from back home and the kids loved it!!

This is a stop in the Passport book of National Parks. You learn how the Native Americans lived on…read morethe river through the eyes of a woman of the village. Cool earth lodge. Nice. But don't go out of your way to stop

Glad this site is preserved. Story worth telling. Well informed, energetic rangers. Good Junior…read moreRanger program. Decent visitor center. Not a ton to see but could kill an hour. Wouldn't go out of my way to visit but worth a stop if in area.

What a gem of a park! We camped for one night (could have easily stayed longer if we'd had more…read moretime) and enjoyed fishing and the historic sites. Ranger Austin was a friendly wealth of information and my 5 yo really enjoyed wearing the buffalo head dress he brought over. Our campsite faced the Missouri, which was sweet. However, all of the campsites are pretty close together. If I were to go back, I'd opt for site 1, which faces the river and has a little more space to it as it is close to a parking lot, but not obtrusively so. Also, the bathrooms were spotless and boasted the nicest campground shower I've ever had.

For a state with an abysmal and brutal record (in fact to the present day) of encounters with…read moreindigenous Americans (oh wait, that's not very distinguishing among other states is it?) this state park does quite an excellent job of presenting a rebuilt indigenous people's village. The cultural and linguistic explanations about the native people's way of seeing and thinking is especially noteworthy. The reconstructed "earthlodges" sit on the site of an actual, large settlement of a northern plains tribe from the 1700s. If you tour this site, you'll learn about the spread of smallpox from the Spanish populations further south, up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, that weakened the entire population even before contact with the european invaders from the east. There are exhibit narratives about a tribal leader traveling to the east to meet with U.S. leaders, however, these narratives omit the brutal part of the european-native confrontation. Notably, the Whitestone massacre from the 1860s, where 300+ women and children at a big harvest camp were brutalized and killed, not too far from this exact site. (A "genocidal" action of the U.S. Army that provides historical precedent for the likes of Boko Haram.) Yes, history is told by the vanquishers, but in this case, a very dedicated woman of indigenous origin has spoken of her heritage through storytelling over many years, and her painstaking, tenacious work has paid off in the quality and insights available at this exhibit. You'll be enriched by insights into the native peoples' worldview. Additionally, I recommend a stop at the visitors center because the media there really brings alive the structures you see in the native village. The military forts at this state park are so predictable...and deceitful (because right to the present, few european americans want to admit and reconcile with the perpetration of atrocities.)