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Indian Hills Resort, formerly called Indian Hills State Recreation Area and Resort, [1] is a commercially operated resort on the north shore of Lake Sakakawea located 31 miles (50 km) west of Garrison, North Dakota. The resort offers camping, lodging, boating, fishing, and trails for hiking and biking. [2]
Fort Stevenson State Park is a public recreation area located on a peninsula on Lake Sakakawea four miles (6.4 km) south of the community of Garrison in McLean County, North Dakota. [3] The state park's 586 acres (237 ha) include a partial reconstruction of Fort Stevenson, the 19th-century Missouri River fort from which the park takes its name ...
Boating, canoeing, camping Crow Flies High State Recreation Area: Mountrail: 247.11 acres (100.00 ha) Lake Sakakawea: Scenic lake views Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park: Morton: 836.47 acres (338.51 ha) 1907 Heart River, Missouri River: Home to On-A-Slant Indian Village Fort Ransom State Park: Ransom: 933.78 acres (377.89 ha) 1976 Sheyenne River
The park offers hiking, swimming, fishing, boat ramps, marina, cabins, and campgrounds. The park's hiking trails include the western terminus of the 4,600-mile (7,400 km) North Country National Scenic Trail which, when completed, will cross the northern tier of the continental United States from its eastern terminus at Crown Point in upstate New York.
Lake Sakakawea, Garrison Dam, and other dams and reservoirs of the Pick–Sloan Project, and affected Indian reservations. The reservoir was created by construction of Garrison Dam, part of a flood control and hydroelectric power generation project named the Pick–Sloan Project along the Missouri river. Garrison dam was completed in 1956.
1959–present. 2200 acres located in the hills east of Willits. First camping took place in October 1959, and the first summer camp took place in July 1964. It was renamed to Wente Scout Reservation in 1978 in honor of San Francisco Council Board Member and Bank of America President Carl F. Wente. www.wentescoutreservation.org: Camp Willett
The site was located about nine miles southwest of the city of Garrison, ND. Fort Stevenson State Park , located on the shores of Lake Sakakawea about 4 miles from the original fort's location, includes a replica of the fort's guardhouse, constructed in 2003, which serves as a museum and information center relating to the old military installation.
In the mid-1950s both of the former fort sites were submerged under Lake Sakakawea, created by extensive flooding of the bottomlands after the Garrison Dam was constructed on the Missouri River. The forts were named after Italian-born Bartholomew Berthold (1780–1831), [ 1 ] a prominent merchant and fur trader of St. Louis .