What Is There To Do In North Dakota?

What is there to do in North Dakota?  We've asked that question of everyone we encountered since discovering we were coming here.  The only thing everyone could come up with is the two (yes, two) Theodore Roosevelt National Parks.  (That's it?  In an entire state?!)

Last week I got online and found the North Dakota tourism site ( www.ndtourism.com ) and requested a state map and their 2012 Tourism Guide.  I haven't had a chance to look through the Guide (John captured it), but the map reveals a lot.

Working outward from Grand Forks on the map I find:

Turtle River State Park (Turtle River is the name of a Native American tribe)
Carl Ben Eielson Memorial Arch
Camp Atchison SHS (State Historical Site)
Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile SHS
Sibley Crossing
Maple Creek SHS
Fort Ransom State Park and SHS
Clausen Springs
Little Yellowstone Park
Icelandic State Park
Pembina State Museum
Pembina Gorge
Gingras Trading Post SHS
Spirit Lake Reservation
Graham's Island State Park in Devils Lake
Fort Totten SHS
Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge
Sully's Hill National Game Preserve
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Slade National Wildlife Refuge
Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Beaver Lake State Park
Doyle Memorial State Park
Whitestone Hill Battlefield SHS
International Peace Garden and Music Camp
Turtle Mountain Reservation
(How about this!) The Geographic Center of North America (continent)
Lonetree Wildlife Management Area

Now to the WESTERN half of North Dakota:

Menoken Indian Village SHS
North Dakota Heritage Center
McDowell Dam Recreation Area
Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
Huff Indian Village SHS
Fort Rice SHS
Sitting Bull Gravesite
Standing Rock Reservation
Cannonball Stage SHS
Schnell Recreation Area
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge
Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge
Des Lac's National Wildlife Refuge
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge
Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge
Camp Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
Four Bears Memorial Park
Fort Berthold Reservation
Fort Stevenson State Park
Sakakawea State Park
David Thompson SHS
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Fort Mandan Historic Site
Fort Clark SHS
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
Double Ditch Indian Village SHS
Menoken Indian Village SHS
North Dakota Heritage Center
Little Missouri State Primitive Park
Killdeer Mountain Battlefield SHS
Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge
The Enchanted Highway
Burning Coal Vein and Columnar Cedars (?)
White Butte - Highest Point in North Dakota - Elevation 3,506 ft
Fort Dilts SHS
Sullys Creek State Primitive Park
Chateau De Mores SHS
Camel Hump Dam
Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch
Missouri Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center Fort Buford SHS
Fort Union National Historic Site
Lewis and Clark State Park
Writing Rock SHS
Maah Daah Hey Trail (connecting the two Theodore Roosevelt National Parks)

But, hey, there's nowhere to go or anything to do in North Dakota...