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 Since its establishment in 1920, Minot's Roosevelt Park Zoo has provided
a wonderful and unique setting for thousands of visitors annually, to
view and enjoy the animals and exhibits found within its 20 acres. Over
the past 83 years the zoo has seen numerous and significant changes and
improvements. Today, Roosevelt Park Zoo exhibits more than 200 mammals,
birds and reptiles, including giraffes, zebras, bongs, African penguins,
apes, brown bears, wolves, flamingos and warthogs, just to list a few.
Call the Zoo office at 701-857-4166 for more information.
Around the Minot area, 15 parks provide over 100 acres of picnic grounds,
as well as eight different walking and biking trails that total nearly
10 miles, which are managed by the Minot Park District.
Our neighbors to the North welcome visitors year-round. In Saskatchewan,
the whole family can enjoy golf, hiking and water sports at the Moose
Mountain Provincial Park. Located on the border between North Dakota and
Manitoba, the International Peace Garden is a 2,300 acre paradise of hiking
and winding bike trails, native forests, picturesque picnic areas and
campgrounds, not to mention more than 150,000 blooming flowers.
 Around
the state, popular attractions for weekend trips lend themselves to glimpses
of the past. Medora is the home of the world-famous Medora Musical and
gateway to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Washburn lets visitors experience
the flavor of an expedition forever carved in history, while Fort Abraham
Lincoln State Park just outside of Bismarck recreates the life and times
of General George Custer and the 7th Cavalry.
Traveling further into the past, 10 full-scale dinosaurs and other prehistoric
fossils set the tone at Dickinson's Dinosaur Museum.
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