Amidon is a town in the southwestern area of North Dakota. It had a population of 23 people in 2019.

Understand

Amidon has the distinction of being the smallest county seat in the US. It was founded in 1910 and named in honor of Charles Amidon, a US District Judge in Fargo, ND.

Get in

• By car: from I-94 exit 42, approx. 35 miles south on US Hy 85.

Get around

See

• White Butte, ☏ +1 701 879-6310. The highest point in North Dakota, elevation 3,506 ft. Call for permission to hike. If no answer, OK to hike but, obey trail courtesy: take only photographs, leave only footprints. 

Do

• Logging Camp Ranch, 5705 151st Ave. SW (1 mi W of Amidon, take "Davis Dam" exit, follow signs marked "Logging Camp Ranch"), ☏ +1 701 279-5501. Live, working ranch, from the 1880s to the present. Log cabins made from Ponderosa pine, Facilities sleep 25. 

Buy

Eat

• Georgia's and the Owl. Near White Butte. Known for good food, particularly steaks. 

Drink

Sleep

• Firehouse RV Park and Antiques (Hwy 85 & West St), ☏ +1 701 290-4377, pyroeye2K@yahoo.com. Open May to September. 10 RV sites. 
• Logging Camp Ranch Bed and Breakfast (18 mi NW of Amidon), ☏ +1 701 279-5501, jhanson@loggingcampranch.com. Set in a working ranch in scenic Badlands. Full breakfast, cabins, buffalo and bluegrass concerts. 

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Williston ← Belfield ←

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