Photos from the Road: Theodore Roosevelt National Park

I’m just back from an amazing trip to several National Parks in the western United States. I drove just 6000 miles in 3 1/2 weeks – and took close to 5000 photos. So it’s going to take me a while to weed through everything, decide which are the best photos to edit, etc. But I didn’t want to make you wait that long to see some of the photos from my trip. I did post some photos to Facebook and Twitter while I was traveling – so I thought I’d post them here on the blog as well in a series of posts from the various National Parks.

My first stop was at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Medora, North Dakota. Theodore Roosevelt first visited the Dakota Territory in 1883 – mainly to hunt bison. It was while he in the Dakotas that he developed his lifelong passion for conservation of the beautiful natural places of the world. His legacy includes establishing five National Parks during his presidency and passage of the 1908 Antiquities Act that has allow other presidents to declare historic sites as national landmarks.

Here are some of my landscape photos from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Views from Boicourt Overlook

Sunset at Wind Canyon

As you can probably tell – one of the things I loved about photographing the landscapes of Theodore Roosevelt National Park was the amazing big beautiful skies!