Esmond, ND Pictures
Buffalo Lake Campground
We finally reached our goal of driving to Esmond. We stayed nearby at the Buffalo Lake Campground for one night. Do not go there without some bug spray!
Here's the Welcome to Esmond sign. Their town slogan is, "The Evergreen City." We stopped at the cafe for the best buttermilk pancakes we've ever tasted.
Esmond also has a campground with 3 spots for RV hookups, but usually these spots are taken up by "Combiners." One thing I noticed is that Esmond doesn't have a street called, Main Street and the building are rather scattered, so you can't really take a "downtown" view.
So if you want to, you can camp east of Esmond at the Buffalo Lake Recreation area, see some more pictures below.
More Pictures of Esmond and Area
Town
of Esmond
-On the way into Esmond we saw a sign for the Randy
Marthe Memorial Park
-driving around we saw the
Esmond Hardware and the fire department
-the Esmond
Cafe and Gal's Food Center ... another
view... the bench in front
says, "Panhandlers Homemakers"
-on the side of Gal's is a mural
of the old town of Esmond... more
to the left... another
view... view towards
road
-the Esmond water tower
-Rich
and Elle check out the town
bulletin board
-inside the
Esmond Cafe
-around the corner is the Esmond
Post Office and the VFW... a sculpture
sits between the 2 buildings
-the Esmond
Locker meat processing plant
-across the street is the Esmond
Memorial Square
-a downtown
small tavern
-the Randy
Marthe Memorial Park is just beautiful and well maintained... pictures of
the double swing
-a smiley face
painted on a stump
-the old
Baptist Church... front
view... a view inside...
side view ... fallen
pine tree... what to do?
-a
hunter's cottage across the street
from the old church
Have you ever seen a house painted like a cow? This house
is probably one the most interesting thing we saw in Esmond, they call it the
"Cow House." You just
can't drive around this cute little town looking for it though. It is pretty well
hidden, you'll have to ask someone where the Cow House is..or look for Evergreen
St SW and 3rd St
When we were walking around town and went into the
city park. They have a double swing there, that would cool to build. Below are
the pictures I took to remind us to build it.
-double
swing full view... front
view... front 2
-top
crossbar... view 1 top...
view 2 top... view
3 top
-back view...
back 2...
-bottom
view... bottom 2...
bottom 3...
The
Esmond Campground
-a view of
the camping area
-camping
fees and phone number sign
Buffalo Lake Campground and Recreation
Area
-a picture of Buffalo
Lake from the beach area... closer
view of the dock
-a picture
of Buffalo Lake Beach... we
parked the RV by the beach
-a view toward the Buffalo
Lake playground and snack bar... behind
the snack bar... closer view of
snackbar
-the campground
shower and restrooms area
-picnic
area and a shelter... an
old red water pump
-a sign that says, "Buffalo
Lake Sportsmans Club"
-a view
of Buffalo Lake from the highway... another
view
-we saw a deer run
through here... berries on a
tree
-the road to the
campground...passed the rv
campground
Continue traveling to Rugby, ND or take the trip to Fort Totten, ND
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