Golf in Long Creek

Long Creek is a remote McKenzie County community in the western North Dakota badlands, best known as the location of The Links of North Dakota at Red Mike Resort. The surrounding badlands terrain — eroded coulees, painted buttes, and the Missouri River breaks — creates a dramatic landscape visited primarily by golfers making the pilgrimage to what has been called one of the best remote golf experiences in the United States. The Little Missouri River drainage defines the badlands geography of western McKenzie County. 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.