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Today we drove up to the North Entrance of the park, it\u2019s basically like 2 separate parks, they are not connected by roads with in the park. Dickinson ND is located about 30 expressway miles to the east of the South entrance and 20 expressway miles to the exit to a 2 lane highway that takes you to the north entrance which is 52 miles from the expressway.<\/p>\n
The Northern part is smaller and to me, much prettier and interesting, it was also a little greener. The road though the park is 14 miles long, it\u2019s in and back for a 28 mile drive. I felt there was more of the painted look than in the Southern part. It seemed a little more rugged and less traveled, as there were very few other visitors in the park., many of the pullout were empty \u00a0or just 1 vehicle parked in them. The more popular \u00a0spots still had several open parking spots.<\/p>\n
We had lunch in the shade of some large Cottonwood trees, near the Little Missouri River. It\u2019s more like a wide shallow creek here.<\/p>\n
It was cooler today and very comfortable in the shade but still kinda hot out in the direct sun. By the time we arrived at the park and drove around exploring then ate, it was getting kinda hot to go hiking in the sun, all the trails seemed to be in the sun with little or no shade. It was time to move on down the road.<\/p>\n\n\t\t