2005 Road Trips

[roadwarrior]

Its not too early to start planning your trips to the away games! I was wondering which road games any of you are planning on going to this season?

[Bisonguy]

Here's my short list:

1)Montana State.

[Gamehunter]

come hell or high water I am going to Montana State. Southern Illinios is also high on my list of possiblities. Does anybody know how far Carbondale is from Fargo?

[Whatever_]

montana state for me also and hopefully at least one game in fargo

[coloradobison]

Time permitting i would like to get to Montana State or SUU. Both about 10 hours from me.

[West_River]

http://www.allegiantair.com/

This is a airline that flies direct from Bismarck to Las Vegas.

This would work well for people going to the Southern Utah game.

One way fares are $104, and flights are only on Friday and Monday.

Two weeks ago they had a sale for $79 when I purchased mine.

[IowaBison]

come hell or high water I am going to Montana State. *Southern Illinios is also high on my list of possiblities. *Does anybody know how far Carbondale is from Fargo?

It's further than Bozeman. (Google says a little over 1000 miles)

A group of my buddies were considering going to the Minnesota basketball game and then driving to Carbondale the next morning. Only problem was we'd have to be on the road by about 2 am. (700 miles)

[tony]

Montana State is the one I have circled but haven't booked anything yet. Hopefully KLM will still be flying to MSP even if NWA goes on strike.

[WYOBISONMAN]

I should be at Montana State and at Southern Utah.

[BisonMav]

For now it's the 3.5 hour drive to most of the home games for my road trips. Waiting for the .5 hour road trip to the Minnesota game in the future.

[mikelsch]

Please check out website listed below. It has details for Bison pre-game events at this year's road FB games. Details include: Online Registration, Attendance Lists, Game Ticket Information, Driving Directions, Campus Maps, Hotel Information, City Information.

All pre-game events are $10 per person/$5 for children 12 and under. Price includes food and non-alcoholic beverages

Also, there will be information coming soon regarding watching games via satellite.

http://www.ndsualumni.com/coe/fall/index.htm

[sambini]

SOUTHREN ILLINOIS hopefully.

[stevejones]

I plan to go to the cal poly game. Been there once before and it is one of the most beautiful places I have been to. Plan to do the game and see the hearst castle and some other areas. Just about choked when I have looked at airfares and hotel rates but I am going to suck it up and go. Also would like to go to MT State but will probably won't be in the budget. But cal poly is a definite go for me.

[Bisonguy]

I plan to go to the cal poly game. *Been there once before and it is one of the most beautiful places I have been to. *Plan to do the game and see the hearst castle and some other areas. *Just about choked when I have looked at airfares and hotel rates but I am going to suck it up and go. *Also would like to go to MT State but will probably won't be in the budget. *But cal poly is a definite go for me.

Where are you flying from and into? I flew from Fargo to Oakland last year for about $400 via United for the UC-Davis game. Granted, it's still about a little over a three hour drive from Oakland to SLO, but it's a nice drive.

We didn't quite make it far enough south to SLO (stayed mainly in Carmel), but Big Sur is definitely a place I'll be returning to.

[TheBisonator]

For those of you interested in flying out of Fargo, here's a list of the daily departures for the rest of 2005 from Hector International. It doesn't look like there's any connecting flights via Denver, but I'm sure you can fly anywhere out west from there regardless. You'd probably just have to get on a different plane.

5:15 am X7 Northwest 1457 DC9-50 Minneapolis/St. Louis
6:30 am D United Express 5492 CRJ Chicago O'Hare
6:55 am D United Express 6701 CRJ Denver
7:00 am D Northwest 752 A320 Minneapolis/Detroit
8:20 am D Northwest 1174 DC9-50 Minneapolis/Nashville
11:00 am D Northwest 3625 ARJ Minneapolis/Oklahoma City
12:32 pm D United Express 6669 CRJ Denver
1:10 pm D Northwest 1465 DC9-30 Minneapolis/St. Louis
1:20 pm D United Express 6810 CRJ Chicago O'Hare
2:45 pm X6 Northwest 458 A320 Minneapolis/Memphis
3:34 pm D United Express 6626 CRJ Denver
4:22 pm D Northwest 795 DC9-30 Minneapolis/Winnipeg
6:08 pm D United Express 5566 CRJ Chicago O'Hare
6:25 pm D Northwest 1804 DC9-30 Minneapolis
6:39 pm D United Express 6670 CRJ Denver

[TheBisonator]

Here's the daily arrivals to Hector also, in case you're looking to take a return flight to Fargo:

10:15 am D Northwest 3402 ARJ Minneapolis/Des Moines
12:00 am D United Express 6809 CRJ Chicago O'Hare
12:24 pm D Northwest 1055 DC9-30 Minneapolis/Pittsburgh
12:50 pm D United Express 6905 CRJ Denver
1:51 pm X6 Northwest 1512 A320 Minneapolis/Reno
3:04 pm D United Express 6626 CRJ Denver
3:26 pm D Northwest 1855 DC9-30 Minneapolis/Grand Rapids
5:32 pm D United Express 5563 CRJ Chicago O'Hare
5:44 pm D Northwest 603 DC9-30 Minneapolis/Toronto
6:09 pm D United Express 6670 CRJ Denver
7:35 pm D Northwest 137 DC9-50 Minneapolis/Chicago
9:22 pm D United Express 6702 CRJ Denver
9:48 pm D United Express 5565 CRJ Chicago O'Hare
9:59 pm X6 Northwest 683 A320 Minneapolis/Philadelphia
11:07 pm X6 Northwest 1051 DC9-50 Minneapolis
11:07 pm 6 Northwest 1051 A320 Minneapolis

[Bisonguy]

We flew to Denver, and then had a connecting flight to Oakland last year.

[stevejones]

The best fares I have seen have been about 370 thru chicago on united to la and then drive to SLO. I think I will do that and really enjoy it. As much as I am glad we are now D1 I must admit that I do miss the good old days of driving over to MSU or up to Grand Forks. A lot cheaper and logistically pretty simple compared to getting to CA.

[Gamehunter]

The best fares I have seen have been about 370 thru chicago on united to la and then drive to SLO. I think I will do that and really enjoy it. As much as I am glad we are now D1 I must admit that I do miss the good old days of driving over to MSU or up to Grand Forks. A lot cheaper and logistically pretty simple compared to getting to CA.

And now the good ol' days of being able to drive to Minneapolis to watch the Bison play.

[SDbison]

All the home games are road trips for me......240 miles one way. As for the away games I will probably go to the Montana State game and will consider making the trip to Southern Illinois. How many NDSU students, fans and alumni do you think will make it to Bozeman?

[sambini]

800

[SDbison]

Wow 800, that is awesome! :o Is that really possible Sambini? Maybe we can get 1000. 8) Actually I will be bringing my wife and two of my grown up kids. Four more fans! I will drive to Bozeman from Sioux Falls area. Party time in Bozeman!

[bisongold]

My wife and I will definitely be there and will be driving...we went to the Missoula game 2 years ago... a long drive but definitely worth it!

[roadwarrior]

Bozeman is 201 miles closer to Fargo than Missoula.

[Gamehunter]

Wow 800, that is awesome! :o Is that really possible Sambini? Maybe we can get 1000. 8) Actually I will be bringing my wife and two of my grown up kids. Four more fans! I will drive to Bozeman from Sioux Falls area. Party time in Bozeman!


I would say that is a conservative guess. I know TONS of people who are planning to attend. We will definately not be short of representation in Bozone.