… was designated a national park on this date in 1978. It had been designated a national memorial park in 1947.
Theodore Roosevelt was the nation’s 26th President and is considered by many to have been our country’s “Conservationist President.” Here in the North Dakota badlands, where many of his personal concerns first gave rise to his later environmental efforts, Roosevelt is remembered with a national park that bears his name and honors the memory of this great conservationist.
Theodore Roosevelt’s rugged, outdoor experience here in the North Dakota badlands shaped his attitudes and philosophy regarding the conservation of our nation’s natural resources.
Many watchable wildlife species inhabit Theodore Roosevelt National Park including bison, elk, prairie dogs, white-tail and mule deer, sharp-tailed grouse, golden eagles, feral horses, and pronghorns.
Theodore Roosevelt said the badlands were “so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.” Discover the “grim fairyland” of Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s geologic formations.
