Killdeer Mountain Four Bears Scenic Byway
Killdeer Mountain Four Bears Scenic Byway is a State Scenic Byway in North Dakota. Within North Dakota it covers roughly 30 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Killdeer Mountain Four Bears Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
North Dakota's Killdeer Mountain Four Bears Scenic Byway runs 64 miles from Manning to New Town across the state's rugged west-central badlands. It follows North Dakota Highway 22 up into the rolling uplands of the Killdeer Mountains, then continues on Highway 23 past the deeply cut Little Missouri breaks to New Town. Along the southern end, the route skirts Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge, a mix of prairie, wetlands, and grassland home to Canada geese, sandpipers, beavers, and coyotes. The Killdeer Battlefield State Historic Site marks a July 28, 1864 clash between troops under General Alfred Sully and Sioux warriors, part of a US Army campaign meant to punish Native Americans who had taken part in Minnesota's 1862 Dakota Conflict. Near its eastern end the byway reaches the Fort Berthold Reservation, homeland of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, or Three Affiliated Tribes, layering that history and living culture over a landscape still shaped by ranching and rodeo.
- Killdeer Mountains
- Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge
- 64 miles
- Killdeer Battlefield 1864
- Fort Berthold Reservation
- Little Missouri breaks
- Manning to New Town
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.
Where to Stay along Killdeer Mountain Four Bears Scenic Byway
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