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Gass Street, Golva, North Dakota.

[ryderwriter]

How to retrace the route from Beach to Camp Crook and Belle Fourche

How to retrace the route from Beach to Camp Crook and Belle Fourche

A Dusty Road trip 

Today we’re on a series of connecting gravel roads through the Badlands.  We’re connecting towns such as Golva, Camp Crook and Deadwood.

The trail is known for carrying cattle herds, outlaws, buffalo hunters and gold miners.  But that was 100 years ago.  This summer, we’re exploring segments, and will put them together as one long effort re-tracing a 150 year old cowboy trail.

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Weathered and Beautiful, Near Beach North Dakota by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: "There is beauty and adventure in the common place for those with eyes to see beyond." -Jonathan Lockwood Huie After exploring a few ghost towns on the border of Montana/North Dakota I was speeding down a gravel road when this house caught my eye and I went sliding to a stop. The door is breathtakingly beautiful! I so wish I could save the door and refinish it! You can really tell this house used to be something amazing. Now it sits, neglected, at the front of a very large operating farm. The family lives in something newer, something they think is better. But I'm in love with this house...

[outhereontheprairie]

Weathered and Beautiful, Near Beach North Dakota by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: "There is beauty and adventure in the common place for those with eyes to see beyond." -Jonathan Lockwood Huie After exploring a few ghost towns on the border of Montana/North Dakota I was speeding down a gravel road when this house caught my eye and I went sliding to a stop. The door is breathtakingly beautiful! I so wish I could save the door and refinish it! You can really tell this house used to be something amazing. Now it sits, neglected, at the front of a very large operating farm. The family lives in something newer, something they think is better. But I'm in love with this house...

[ryderwriter]

Add 4 More of the top healthy Badland Attractions to Your 2021 calendar

Add 4 More of the top healthy Badland Attractions to Your 2021 calendar

For your 2021 Calendar — 4 more of the top Healthy Badland Attractions 2020 Badlands Attraction Goals Carry Over to 2021  There are places in the Badlands where you will have all the isolation you want.  Like a fellow from Wisconsin told me on New Years Day, “The Maah Daah Hey?  Isn’t that the long trail where you don’t see anyone and you can camp along the trail?”  I guess it’s the reputation of…

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[ryderwriter]

Badlands are Open -- 10 Places for Happy Healthy Social-distancing

Badlands are Open — 10 Places for Happy Healthy Social-distancing

Parks are Closed, Here’s Where the Badlands are Rolling hills in the grasslands above the badlands of western North Dakota might seem a bit mundane when viewed from a major highway, but once off the main roads and onto hiking paths. In the fall,  a myriad of textures, colors and smell abounds. When the sun lowers in the western sky and the colors warm, the prairies glow! Summit Campground and…

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[outhereontheprairie]

Former Home? Golva North Dakota by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: Our destination on our drive along maze of country roads on the border of North Dakota and Montana was the tiny town of Golva. It's a "blink and you miss it" town. Do you think this was a house or a railroad depot? I really liked what wikipedia said about Golva: "Golva ND is one of the best places in the United States to grow up. Golva is located in Lone Tree Township. The homesteaders that arrived in the area between 1900 and 1910 found only one tree in the area. That tree was standing about one mile (1.6 km) east of modern-day Golva till it died around 1980. According to the Homestead Act, the homesteaders got 160 acres (0.65 km2) if they lived on the land for 7 years. In western North Dakota, they were also given another 160 acres (0.65 km2) if they planted trees on the land, so there are now trees around most farmsteads in the area. The last living homesteader from the Golva area, Mrs. George (Emma) Geary, died in 1978, still owning her homestead and the house on it, although she had left the homestead in 1958 after breaking her hip. The doctors told her, due to the seriousness of the break, she would be bedridden for the rest of her life. Being a true pioneer, she responded "The hell I will". She walked with one crutch and lived alone until shortly before her death at 89. Her neighbor for over 40 years, Eva Weinreis, wrote an autobiography entitled A Note On the Tea Kettle about her life and coming from Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1906 with her husband, Peter Weinreis, to homestead two miles (3 km) west of Burkey, North Dakota and two miles (3 km) south of modern-day Golva. The book told of the early history of the Golva area. Golva was founded in 1915,[4] when the Northern Pacific Railroad line came down from Beach, North Dakota. It was originally supposed to be the county seat of Golden Valley County and got the name Golva from the first three letters of Golden and first two letters of Valley, the name having been suggested by the original townsite owner, A.L. Martin.[4][5] The "Golden Valley" name comes from the rolling valleys of golden wheat just before harvest. Prior to 1915, most of the local businesses were in Burkey, situated about four miles (6 km) southwest of Golva. St Mary's Catholic Church was built in Burkey in 1906, but moved to Golva shortly after it was founded. Other businesses moved from Burkey to Golva and Burkey literally disappeared within a couple of years. Golva once had a business community which consisted of a hardware store, a grocery store, a car dealership, a lumberyard, two grain elevators, two bars, a few restaurants, and several other businesses. As of 2007, the only business in the city include a lumberyard, a gas station, a bank, a grocery store, a grain elevator, and one church. Golva post office was established February 15, 1916.[6]"

[outhereontheprairie]

Unusual Abandoned Home in Western North Dakota by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: This was the fourth homestead we came across on our drive along maze of country roads on the border of North Dakota and Montana. The whole place looked creepy! Even the trees in front of it were dead and scraggly looking. I have to say of all the abandoned houses I saw that day this is the one I most wanted to look inside! There was no trespassing signs so I couldn't which is always disappointing. They used local rock for the porch and put it all over the garage. If anyone has any information on this spooky old place please let me know!