Totten Trail

July 17, 2009

Lyle said this is a must visit for “supreme pizza” and he was correct. Totten Trail is located at Lake Audubon ND on Hwy 83 about 40 miles north of Bismark. We ordered one pizza and easily took care of four people. Cost: $24.00.

This is the only place to east for 15 miles around. There were a lot of people here, mostly family vacationers and fishermen who like to fish in Lake Audubon or Lake Sakakawea. We enjoyed this little spot.

Totten Trail and Fort Totten are historically significant here. Fort Totten, near Devil’s Lake, was constructed in 1867 and used as a military fort until 1890, when it was converted to a boarding school for Dakota Indian Children. Part of our brilliant Indian policy required the “Americianization” of children by schooling them them in the “white man’s culture.” The school closed in 1959.