U.S. Highway 85 is North Dakota’s deadliest highway. If you’re not familiar with it, it is the road that runs north and south along the western edge of the state, from our border with Canada to our border with South Dakota, through the North Dakota Bad Lands, some of the state’s most scenic and fragile landscapes. Even though it passes …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson took a ride on the back roads of Burleigh County on a recent trip back to North Dakota and here are some of the images he captured.
The large forest fires in the western United States have made for some spectacular photos of the moon and sun the past several days. Grand Forks photographer Russ Hons captures that beauty in these images.
Grand Forks photographer Russ Hons has an eye for the outdoors. Here are some of the photos he took recently on a trip to western North Dakota. Among the shots is the majestic Milky Way photo taken above the Medora Musical at the Burning Hills Amphitheater just as the show concluded. The bull elk pictured came out to feed above the …
Here are a few spectacular photos from Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson’s recent trip home to North Dakota. They are a canola field near northeast of McKenzie,N.D., two of a Missouri River sunset through the smoky skies north of Double Ditch Indian Village, the result of Canadian forest fires, and a yellowheaded-blackbird in cattail slough northeast of McKenzie.
These are the three things I enjoy most about North Dakota’s outdoors: Wading across the Little Missouri River with my hiking shoes slung over my shoulder, on my way to a silent day hiking in the Bad Lands wilderness. Watching my dog lean into a patch of brush, just a glimpse of red feathers under her nose, her nostrils flaring …