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Bismarck-Mandan is your gateway to North Dakota’s "American Legacy Tour," which captures the fascinating story of western expansion. It sounds like a roll call from history’s pages of those who were here before to help tame the wide open, pristine land and to shape the future we know today...Sitting Bull, Lewis & Clark, Sakakawea, John Jacob Aster, Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer and Good Fur Robe.

American Legacy Tour Sample Itinerary:
Day 1
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Depart Bismarck-Mandan
8:50 a.m. Arrive Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center/Fort Mandan
10:30 a.m. Arrive Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site (Stanton 55 Miles North West of Bismarck).
12:00 p.m. Tour Hydro Electric Plant and National Fish Hatchery (Riverdale 68 miles North of Bismarck) or the Great Synfuels Plant (Beulah 70 miles North West of Bismarck).
1:40 p.m. Picnic Lake Sakakawea State Park (72 Mile N. of Bismarck).
4:00 p.m. Return To Headquarters Hotel
5:15 p.m. Arrive Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park Tour Visitors Center And On-A-Slant Indian Village
5:30 p.m. Tour Custer House, Granary, and Barracks
6:30 p.m. Entertainment and Pitchfork Steak Fondue at Commissary
7:35 p.m. Tour Fort Block Houses
8:00 p.m. Board Bus For Return To Hotel

Day 2
8:00 a.m. Depart Hotel
8:10 a.m. Tour North Dakota Heritage Center
8:55 a.m. Walk To North Dakota State Capitol for Tour
10:00 a.m. Tour Former Governor’s Mansion (optional coffee & kuchen on front lawn)
12:00 a.m. Painted Canyon Visitors Center (130 miles West of Bismarck). * Time change to Mountain time
12:20 p.m. Board Bus (Lunch At Medora Chuckwagon)
1:40 p.m. Tour Chateau de Mores
2:40 p.m. Downtown Medora - shops, doll house, time machine, museum, etc.
4:30 p.m. Check In Hotel
6:30 p.m. Buffalo Barbecue
7:30 p.m. Board Bus For Medora Musical
 
Day 3 North Route:
8:00 a.m. (Mountain Time) Drive Through Badlands - North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park
11:30 a.m. (Central Time) Williston, North Dakota
12:30 a.m. Arrive Fort Buford State Historic Site
1:30 p.m. Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Day 3 South Route:
8:00 a.m. (Mountain Time) Drive to Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore
 
For details on attractions and historic sites outside of Bismarck-Mandan contact:
North Dakota Tourism Department (800) 435-5663
Fort Union (701) 572-9083
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation (701) 223-4800 or (701) 623-4444
Knife River Indian Village (701) 745-3300
Great Plains Synfuels (701) 873-2100
Fort Mandan (701) 462-3482
Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery (701) 654-7451
Garrison Dam Power Plant (701) 654-7411
Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center (701) 462-8535

 


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