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They keep pushing tourism in North Dakota. What do we have to attract the tourists?

Well..., North Dakota has the Hjemkomst Viking Ship and a Hopperstad Stave Church Replica over in Moorhead, across the river in Minnesota.

http://www.hjemkomst-center.com/

The worlds largest buffalo in Jamestown, a hundred miles to the west of the above.

http://www.realnd.com/jamestownbuffaloindex.htm
http://www.sorabji.com/2002/road_trip/north_dakota/jamestown/

The Peace Gardens, 160 miles to the North of Jamestown. That is worthy visit. Plan to spend the day and get a room in Rolla or Belcourt. It's a long drive back.

http://www.peacegarden.com/

A big fiber glass Holstein in New Salem. But that is a drive-by on the way to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Unless you want to stop and take a few pictures.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/cow.html

And of the few real tourist attraction - Madora ND - Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Western North Dakota.

http://www.nps.gov/thro/home.htm
http://www.theodore.roosevelt.national-park.com/


In 2003 North Dakota had a population of 633,837
An area of 68,976 square miles.
9.3 people per square mile.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/38000.html

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I just know I am going to get in trouble for this. But it is about time people face facts. The sites to see, as worthy as some of them are, are too spread out for any real tourism in this state.

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