Eastern Montana Badlands

Our next destination after Red Lodge was Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. As we drove through Montana, our fourth largest state behind, Alaska, Texas, and California, we watched as the mountains became fewer, the land drier and flatter. Except where irrigation greened the landscape the colors were duller. It took a couple of days to reach North Dakota. One place we stayed along the way was a Montana State Park that had close to 20,000 acres of Montana Badlands