WalkHidden gem
Cross Ranch State Park
Center, North Dakota
Cottonwood groves, prairie and a bison herd on the free-flowing Missouri.
- Price
- State park permit applies; check current rates
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 2 hours
Cross Ranch preserves one of the last free-flowing stretches of the Missouri River, with cottonwood forests and tallgrass prairie. A nature preserve beside it keeps a bison herd. Trails are quiet and flat.
Good to know
- Flat trails
- Look for bison at the preserve
- Camping available
- Best time
- Morning
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Paved then gravel; fine for 2WD
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
Facilities
- Picnic tables
- Toilets
- Drinking water
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