Paddling near Dickinson, ND
Dickinson sits in Stark County within western North Dakota's Badlands corridor, putting paddlers within reach of the Heart River, Edward Arthur Patterson Lake right in town, and Lake Tschida (Heart Butte Reservoir) to the east. Roughly 60 miles west, the Little Missouri River — the state's only designated Scenic River — winds through Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
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