The Dusty Streets Of Williston - Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Today was an absolutely beautiful day in the Bakken. One could not ask for a nicer day.

It was the perfect day to take photos of the busiest street in Williston. There may be roads just outside Williston and on the edges of Williston that are busier, but there is no street in Williston busier than 2nd Street West on the southwest side of town.

All trucks leaving this side of town, must bypass through the grain elevator industrial park area, and then make a left turn onto 2nd Street West, before heading west out of town and toward Montana. It's a clear shot, but unfortunately it requires one more left turn on the busy bypass to get on the highway.

Be that as it may, it leaves 2nd Street West as the busiest street in Williston. So I thought I would take some photos of the street. The photos below were taken at 5:30 p.m. just as the evening traffic begins to get heavy.

One photo is looking west, one looking east. Absolutely gorgeous photos except for the dust.

Yup, this is the busiest street in the busiest town in the Bakken at 5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday. 

[The bypass / Million Dollar Way intersection north of town is much busier, but it is an intersection of two highways, and not a "street" in Williston.]

It reminds me of the streets of Laredo: