Quote Originally Posted by north woods gal View Post
Teddy Roosevelt NP has some great mountain biking trails, but officials warn you that if it does rain, the clay soils become treacherous until dry. I'm guessing they have more road bike type trails, too. Might want to check it out.
We've actually been there before (but not long enough!) There's a gorgeous loop road around the park that we can ride our road bikes on, and for MTB there's the Mah-dah-hey and Buffalo Gap singletrack trails in nearby Medora. We only did a day trip before (were staying in Dickinson) so just rode part of the Mah-dah-hey. Hoping to do more this time around! And there's lovely hiking too; we did a long hike there on a different day trip last time too.

Today's 20-mile ride was on our MTBs too, in fact. We're staying in a national forest campground in northern Minnesota and rode the lovely unpaved (but well packed) national forest roads in the area (Chippewa NF). Aside from being followed by deer flies, it was lovely. VERY sad to see all the trees down from the severe storms here in the past couple of weeks, though. Some areas looked like a tornado went through but were most likely straight-line winds. Big props to the national forest crews as it appeared that many trees fell across the roads, but all had been cut and moved out of the way by today; that's pretty quick cleanup!