Wait.... Wrong forum, got caught up in all the recent Dakota hype.
My bad.

Evidently the hype confused you. The Dakota rifle company is in South Dakota!

Hey now be nice. We have a very nice summer and fall. The other 11 months kinda suck though. ED K

It' nice out today!

It is a great state to be from!
Far from!
My wife enjoys makes fun of the turtle "mountains"
K

Judging by the number of oil field workers back home , the jobs aren't great right now either!!!! N.D. is great if you are making a pile of money, I suppose.............

hate North Dakota but to be fair i may be jaded by having had to drive across it at 65mph to many phuggin times....the HP's and others are Nazi's bout speed limits....same highway in Montana and im cruising at 80 most the time and have the HP's wave at me

North Dakota ranks #1 in the happiest states in America. In a couple of other rankings it is #3 but that still puts it ahead of a lot of others.

Would I want to live there - no thanks.

http://www.businessinsider.com/happiest-states-in-america-2014-2

I do. You take the boy outta ND but...

I luff Nort Dakota, you bet.
Mom's from there, we spent part of the late Sixties in Minot while my dad was in the Air Force.
Turtle Mountains, you bet. Bottineau!

It is only second to South Dakota, in my book.

All kidding aside i live by the Turtle Mountains and have a 160 acres with a hunting shack up there. Not very high but really pretty and nice. Our other greatest asset is only having about 600,000 people in the whole state.So there huh. ED K

I like where I live, but would consider moving if not for family. Any state with more cows than people would be great.

I've never lived or been to ND. But I had a lot of friends who were stationed there in the Air Force. They liked ND except for the loong Winters.

Pretty sure we're over 700k now. Post boom--who knows?

I figure the people who just wanted to make a quick buck will leave, and the good ones will stay.

It's the "sleeper best state" for hunting and fishing.

I grew up in MN, but we could see both Dakota's from our front yard. I wouldn't mind living in either one.

Born and raised there.

Great grandparents homesteaded up by the Canadian border.

Miss the small town/city pace and lifestyle.

There is a sense of freedom that the wide open prairie offers.

North Dakota sucks, too cold and too desolate. Much better here.

bucktail, that must have been 10 - 20 miles from here. Shhh, the Glacial Lakes region is the best kept secret in South Dakota.

great grand dad was register of deeds for Towner county. Lived in Cando, and had a 160 acres north of there. Been to the 160 acres to see what it looked like in the area. Have been through the state a couple of times. Was with some guys on an Elk cull a few years ago at T. R. Park. I like trees too much to love it out there, but could learn to live there, I guess. Had some high power/long range shooters come to Perry from there.

I liked it better prior to the oil boom

Yeah, oil booms don't generally turn areas into any place somebody who likes open spaces would prefer. I spent part of the first Bakken oil boom in the early 1980's working on rigs in far eastern Montana, and got out as soon as I could afford to. (Was in college in those days.)

But in general I really like North Dakota. It doesn't have the real mountains of western Montana, and the kinds of hunting and fishing that go with them, but I like hunting and fishing the plains too. Have hunted big game and birds and fished in NoDak, and done other outdoor stuff like backpacking in the badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, amid the bison and bighorns. I like it.

Must be around Rosholt or New Effington.

Ditto. Boom has brought in a lot of A-holes. Lots and lots of them. While I like trees, there something about that horizon to horizon vista. Especially at night, if you can get away from the light pollution.

Kaiser Norton

If we'd get a COLD snap about the first of March, along with the layoffs and downturn, most of the pansies would leave I think.

Nope, the big city, Sisseton. It's been oddly warm lately, above freezing. But then November was like January if you believe my heating bill. Talked to the game warden the other day, trucks going through on Traverse and Big Stone. Now Traverse I can understand.

Odd those lakes with Traverse flowing north and Big Stone south and you can throw a rock from one to the other. Where does all that water come from?

Thinking Sisseton is more than 20 miles. IIRC it was over an hour with a load of cattle and 45 min empty.

I do. No apology.

It's beautiful and friendly.


This is what has been done to it.

http://www.willistonherald.com/not-...b8163ca-a403-11e4-9180-c377aef7d584.html

Could be. I had Brown's Valley in mind, that's 10 east. ND border is not quite 20 north of here. Can see ND and MN from the hills (where the water comes from) which are about 6 west of town on a good day. That last glacier did some pretty cool stuff.

The badlands and adjoining rolling prairies are nice country to hunt.....

My folks are about 10 miles north of Wheaton. 3 miles from Whiterock.

Whenever I drive up I-29 by Sisseton I stop at the ridge and take in the view of the glacial scrape.

Amazing what a chunk of ice did.

Yeah, that valley was a HUGE lake when the glacier melted, Sisseton was under water. Would have been something to see when it let loose. Best part is the glacier left a bunch of good fishing lakes and potholes for duck production.

If you get off at the Sisseton exit and go west on Hwy 10 through town and about five miles further you'll find the Torness tower and interpretive center. (Harold, a fur buyer turned banker built it and donated it to the city. AKA Harold's Erection ) Three state view from the tower and interesting stuff in the interpretive center. Harold was big on the explorer Nicollet. Nothing spectacular but if you have some time. Also if you continue to the top of the hill there's a couple of interesting hysterical markers. Fort Sisseton is good for a visit, it's original and not a reconstruction as so many historical sites are.

Bucktail, don't think I've been through Wheaton. Was through White Rock a couple years ago looking for hunting spots and it was just about gone. With all the old and agency buildings when we moved here I thought of doing a photo essay. Wish I had.

We liked it better prior to the 'Sconi boom on Devils Lake and the south central potholes.

I haven't seen much of Sisseton other than the stockyard. Some of my HS classmates used to go over there to the Peanut Bar because they used to serve minors. Is it still open?

You haven't missed much, like other east river small towns except with a larger Indian population. Not nearly so wild as it once was. The Peanut Bar is still there, actually have never been in it. Have a cousin that was here with the Highway Patrol twenty-couple years ago, not long before we moved here. Was cautioned that's the last bar to go to unless you were looking for a fight. My favorite of his stories is that a guy kept a horse in town in his back yard. To simplify watering he cut out the kitchen window and filled the sink. Um, we'll think of something before winter, I guess.

Worked out of Williston in 1980 during the first little oil boom. Have some great memories.
Is the State Line Club still there?
Made that drive a couple times to party on after the bars closed in ND.

I spent many happy days, bowhunting down by the confluence, just west of Williston. Also used to love the Little Mo grasslands, near the Elkhorn ranch. Didn't get much better that sitting in the cottonwoods, watching a buck come down the trail.

He's geographically challenged (to be politically correct).

I remember that story from when I was a kid. Never saw it though.

yeah still there

Really! Never saw it either but with some of the characters around here I believe it. Or at least it could be.

I made a good living in the south east corner of N Dakota. Shot a lot of birds when living there. Also shot deer and pronghorn. But after living there for 18 years moved south .

Use to do a lot of traveling and business out in the Dakotas during the 80s and 90s.... I love the landscape, and the people in the Dakotas... some of the friendliest people you could ever meet anywhere....

prices for things were always more than reasonable...had some great meals at some unbelievable prices at restaurants all over the state....plenty of funny traveling stories...

in my travels, use to love to pull off I 90 and follow old Hwy 10, or what use to be Hwy 10 thru North Dakota....especially west of Mandan all the way to Beach ND or Wibaux Montana...
frequently did that when traveling from MN to the Pacific NW..

and all of those Scandinavian & German gals in North Dakota, some of the best looking women in the entire USA...

always love to spend time in North Dakota...