Theodore Roosevelt came to the Badlands of Western North Dakota to replenish and reinvigorate himself. Today modern explorers still visit this remarkable area in search of adventure and discovery. This book is the first trail guide to a region rich in scenery, history, and bountiful wildlife. The guide's centerpiece is a never before available mile-by-mile description of the Maah Daah Hey Trail, a 100-mile single track that links the region's highlights, and has fast become a national destination for mountain bikers and horse riders.

This guide also describes all 250 miles of trails in Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the surrounding Dakota Prairie Grasslands. The book helps visitors choose the right trip, shows them how to prepare, and then guides them expertly along the way. Thorough route descriptions are combined with "on the ground" insights into the area's natural and cultural features.

The recreation options in the region are as limitless as the vistas. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is America's Serengeti, a colorful, jumbled landscape, home to bison, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep and wild horses. Here lush gentle prairie and wildly eroded badlands stand side by side. Guidebook trips range from short self-guided interpretive hikes to multiday journeys with backpacks, mountain bikes and horses. Readers will find directions to attractions such as the abundant fossils of the Petrified Forest and the secluded backcountry of the Achenbach Hills in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, or Devils Pass and the China Wall along the Maah Daah Hey Trail.

This trail guide is available in a Maah Daah Hey Trail combo discount with: Trails Illustrated's Theodore Roosevelt National Park Topographic Map

About the Author

Hiram Rogers is the author of the best selling Exploring the Black Hills and Badlands as well as the books 50 Hikes in Kentucky and Backroad Bicycling in the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains. He has also written about outdoor recreation and conservation issues for several magazines including Backpacker and GORP.com. He is a geologist, avid outdoorsman, and former resident of the Dakotas.