North Dakota Hiking and Backpacking Trips

Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Maah Daah Hey Trail

Submitted by: Backpacker Magazine
Explore an ancient fossilwood forest on this Badlands route.

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Readers' Choice 2012: Top 3 - Midwest Hikes

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This region's top mapper has notched 20 bag nights and 200 trail miles in 9 states this year scouting trails for BACKPACKER. Here are three of his favorite routes.

Readers' Choice: Southeast

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Your favorite parks, weekend getaways, peak ascents, campsites, and more in the southeast.

Trip Finder: Great Plains

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Your favorite Great Plains hikes—from dayhikes to weekenders to multiday trips.

Readers' Choice: Great Plains

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Your favorite parks, weekend getaways, peak ascents, campsites, and more in the Great Plains states.

Best. Hikes. Ever.

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We've covered 245,591 miles of trails in our 37-year history. Here are our 20 all-time favorite trips, plus—shocking!—20 routes we never covered.

Best Hikes Ever: Prairie Trail, ND

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Weave around grassy meadows and mirror lakes.

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