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Morning Drive Through T. Roosevelt National Park

  • August 18, 2007
  • Rated 5 of 5 by kwasiak from Tucson, Arizona
Morning Drive Through T. Roosevelt National Park

We left our cabin at the Medora Campground right outside the entrance to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park at 6am to go for a morning drive through the park. I am a morning person, so I was totally game for doing this, although I was kind of tough to do since we had done the Musical the night before. If you are not a morning person, but want to see animals then you really should force yourself to do this maybe starting at 7am instead of 6am. Even if you do not do a drive through in the morning you can see the beautiful scenery later in the day and perhaps a few animals, too.

The first animals we came upon were Prairie Dogs in one of their Prairie Dog Towns. It is fun to watch these guys for a while. If you are into photographs like me, then a zoom lens is great for getting close ups of them here.

Besides Prairie Dogs the animals we saw the most of were buffaloes. We saw one walking alone in the road in front of us. When we went past him he stopped and I got a funny photo of him with his tongue out. I also liked him because he was walking the right way in the middle of the right lane. We also saw a whole herd towards the end of our drive and had to stop while they were crossing the road. The herd was fun to watch with them taking turns to roll in the dirt.

On our drive we saw several does and their young as well as a few deer. We also saw some turkeys and small group of mustangs. Basically we saw the major animals here, except Elk.

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