Golf in Killdeer

Killdeer is the Dunn County seat in western North Dakota near the Killdeer Mountains, a series of buttes rising dramatically from the surrounding badlands. The Killdeer Mountains battle site preserves the 1864 military engagement between U.S. forces and Sioux and Lakota warriors, and the surrounding landscape of oil wells, badlands formations, and prairie reflects the complex history of a region that has moved from Native American homeland to homestead frontier to modern energy production in the span of 150 years. The Bakken formation's development beneath Dunn County has brought significant economic change. North Dakota's outdoor recreational culture — hunting, fishing, and golf — creates a year-round sports calendar where each season's activity is valued for its own pleasures by a population accustomed to the rhythms of the northern Great Plains.