A 32-mile back road from Gladstone to Regent lined with the world's largest scrap-metal sculptures — giant grasshoppers, tin families, leaping deer — all built by one local artist on the open prairie.
Road trips · North Dakota
North Dakota road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in North Dakota — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
The world's largest Holstein cow, 38 feet of fiberglass on a hilltop above New Salem, visible for miles along I-94 in the central part of the state.
A giant turtle built from over 2,000 painted tire rims in tiny Dunseith, near the Canadian border on the way to the International Peace Garden.
A museum devoted entirely to the American bison in Jamestown, with a live herd grazing outside beneath the world's largest buffalo statue, right off I-94.
A rare forested river canyon in the far northeast that surprises everyone expecting flat prairie — great for a leg-stretch, an overlook, and fall color along the Pembina River.
A 21st-century Stonehenge of pink granite slabs perched on a ridge above the farmland near Bottineau, with sighting tubes for the solstices, equinox, and the North Star — a quiet, free detour.
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