About this city
Also known as: Home of Sandy the Sandhill Crane
Steele is an historic, highly welcoming rural prairie city serving as the county seat of Kidder County, positioned dynamically along Interstate 94 in the heart of central North Dakota's famous 'Coteau des Prairies' pothole lake region. Founded in 1878 by land speculator Wilbur F. Steele during the Great Dakota Boom, the town grew as a prosperous agricultural processing hub for wheat and beef ranchers. Steele achieved permanent national roadside pop-culture fame in 1982 with the construction of 'Sandy,' a colossal, 40-foot-tall fiberglass statue of a Sandhill Crane that commands the prairie horizon. Today, Steele preserves a quiet small-town lifestyle, globally recognized by avid sportsmen as a premier destination for world-class waterfowl and migratory bird hunting.
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Suggested stay: 1 day
Photograph 'Sandy the Sandhill Crane,' the world's largest crane monument, explore Kidder County pioneer history at the local heritage display barn, and view migratory birds at the nearby Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
