Native American Scenic Byway - North Dakota
Native American Scenic Byway - North Dakota is a National Scenic Byway in North Dakota. Within North Dakota it covers roughly 35 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Native American Scenic Byway - North Dakota with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
North Dakota's stretch of the Native American Scenic Byway runs entirely within the Standing Rock Reservation in Sioux County. It follows the Missouri River south from the Cannonball River on Highways 1806 and 24 to the South Dakota line near Mobridge. It's the northern end of a larger federally designated byway that continues south through the Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, and Crow Creek reservations, tracing the same river Lewis and Clark's expedition camped along in 1804 and 1806. At Fort Yates, a military post established in 1874 and now the Standing Rock Reservation's headquarters, the byway passes the Standing Rock Monument that gave the reservation its name, the restored Fort Yates Stockade, and the original 1890 burial site of Sitting Bull, before his remains were controversially relocated to a bluff near Mobridge in 1953. Museums and monuments along the drive tell Sioux history from a Native perspective, in a landscape of open Missouri River bluffs and reservation ranchland.
- Standing Rock Reservation
- Fort Yates
- Sitting Bull's original burial site
- Missouri River
- Cannonball River
- Standing Rock Monument
- Highways 1806/24
Plan a drive on Native American Scenic Byway - North Dakota →
What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.