Trail Monkey has info to help plan a hike and a couple of pictures.
OOPS! I wanted to see the North Dakota pictures.
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Trail Monkey has info to help plan a hike and a couple of pictures.
The North Dakota Tourism home page leads to potentially helpful maps and information on lodging.
N D Cities and Counties with home pages can be referenced here. When last checked, at least Harvey and McClusky near the NCT route had a page and e-mail address for requesting info.
You will pass by the city of Turtle Lake as you walk along the McClusky Canal.
The Coteaus and Prairies Activities page has a menu of varied recreational pursuits. There are a few nice pix under each.
North Dakota State Info
This official page of the Garrison Diversion Project has some info and pictures about the McClusky Canal and Wildlife Areas.
North Dakota State University provides geologic information with great landform photos and acoompanying text.
A guide, with pictures (loaded one at a time) to Native Wildflowers of the North Dakota Grasslands.
More Flowers of the American Prairie.
A comprehensive list of butterflies found in the Sheyenne National Grasslands has been compiled by Minot State University and the Northern Prairie Science Center of the National Biological Service. No pictures, but if you like lepidoptera, this is good. Other ND area flutter-by lists can be reached through this site too.
Cornell and the National Audubon Society have teamed up to present Birdsource with links to bird counts, learning opportunities, a bird of the week and more. Here's their North Dakota watchlist.
Here's an on-line field guide for everything from insects, through birds and mammals, trees and flowers, with a place to create a life list of animals. This is a great site! e-Nature
An account of a motorcycle trek through tallgrass prairie by Crooked Creek Observer in Minnesota. But the very nice pictures are similar to what you will see in ND along the trail.
NCT's very own North Star magazine editor, Wes Boyd and daughter Amanda checked out the trail and other points of interest in North Dakota.
No pictures, but here's Chet Fromme's account of his miles in North Dakota. He's one of the end-to-enders.