_North Park._ Hotel accommodations at Watford City (_see Tour 4_); camping and trailer facilities at Squaw Creek Picnic Area (_see North Roosevelt Regional State Park Tour below_). _South Park._ Hotel accommodations at Medora (_see Tour 8_). Camping and trailer facilities at camping area in park (_see South Roosevelt Regional State Park Tour below_). Meals, cabins, and horses at Buddy Ranch, 1.5 m. E. of Medora. Horse rates for resident guest, $1.50 per day, guide provided with party of 5; for nonresident guest, $1.50 for one-half day, $2.50 per day, guide provided with party of 5. =Climate, clothing, and equipment:= Summer tourists should prepare for hot days and cool evenings and for sudden rain or dust storms. Those who expect to tramp in the Badlands should dress for walking through brush and soft, clayey soil. Breeches and high-top boots are in order, the latter serving the additional purpose of protection against snake bite. =Medical service:= _North Park._ Watford City (_see Tour 4_). _South Park._ Belfield (_see Tour 8_). =Special regulations:= No hunting allowed. Camping permitted at points where facilities are provided. Fires allowed only at points designated. =Warnings:= Avoid low places during heavy rainstorms. Horse trails should not be attempted after rains until trail makers have had an opportunity to repair. Use only native horses. Rattlesnakes are encountered only infrequently (_see_ GENERAL INFORMATION). =Summary of attractions:= Badlands views, petrified forests, horseback riding, camping. Theodore Roosevelt's biographer, Herman Hagedorn, writes: "Between the prairie lands of North Dakota and the prairie lands of Montana there is a narrow strip of broken country so wild and fantastic in its beauty that it seems as though some unholy demon had carved it to mock the loveliness of God. On both sides of a sinuous river rise ten thousand buttes cut into bizarre shapes by the waters of countless centuries. The hand of man never dared to paint anything as those hills are painted. Olive and lavender, buff, brown, and dazzling white mingle with emerald and flaming scarlet to make a piece of savage splendor that is not without an element of the terrible. The buttes are stark and bare. Only in the clefts are ancient cedars, starved and deformed. In spring there are patches of green grass, an acre here, a hundred acres there, reaching up the slopes from the level bottom-land; but there are regions where for miles and miles no green thing grows, and all creation seems a witch's caldron of gray bubbles tongued with flame, held by some bit of black art forever in suspension."