Animals

We have seen many animals throughout the trip but we were excited to see a lot more in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The first animals we saw on our way into Medora were prairie dogs. There were entire cities of prairie dogs along the side of the road running around and barking at us. We would see many more prairie dogs throughout the next few days and they were very fun to watch and listen to.

Going into the park the next day after our affordable housing meeting we saw a ton of bison. We saw a lone bison on the way in and when we stopped to watch it another visitor told us where we could go to see a whole herd. Further into the park we did get to see an entire herd of bison and watched them for quite a while before dinner. There were two big groups out in the field and we enjoyed watching smaller groups of just a couple bison cross between the larger groups.

In the evening we rode our bikes out of the park, back to Medora, after watching the sunset in the park. The sun was down and it was starting to get pretty dark which made it even more startling to come around a bend and find a bison in the middle of the road. Luckily it moved off fairly quickly and we were able to continue with our ride. Soon after our encounter with the bison we spotted some deer and some wild horses in a field off the road. Just as we were leaving the park we thought we saw another deer but quickly realized it was an elk when it started running along beside the road next to us. We were very excited to see all these animals but decided that we would rather see them from slightly further away rather than encountering them on the road on our bikes.