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There are two real options for a meal after a day in the Badlands, depending on which unit of the park you visited: Watford City near the North Unit, or Medora near the South Unit. Both have more going on than you’d expect from towns this size — and both

Watford City isn’t the kind of place that makes the national travel magazine lists. It’s a working oil patch town in McKenzie County, western North Dakota, and it owns that identity completely. But sitting 14 miles from one of the more dramatic landscapes in the American West — Theodore Roosevelt

The contractors who come out of a Bakken assignment with the most money saved are not always the ones who made the most money. They’re the ones who kept more of it. Housing is the biggest controllable variable — and a monthly RV site at a full-hookup park is how

The housing decision every new Bakken worker faces is usually the same one: do I try to find an apartment, or do I bring my rig and find a monthly site? This post gives you the numbers and the honest trade-offs, so you can stop guessing and just decide. Watford

People who’ve done it for one rotation and people who’ve been at it for three years both say the same general thing: it’s more livable than you’d think, the money is genuinely good, and the winter is not optional to prepare for. Here’s the honest rundown. The Bakken Shale formation

If you’re headed to the Bakken and trying to figure out where to sleep, eat, and actually decompress after a 12-hour shift — you’re not alone. Finding decent oilfield worker housing in Watford City, ND is one of the first things people stress about when they land a job out