If you haven’t headed north lately you may have missed the 35 gigantic windmills near Regan, just southeast of Wilton. As a matter of fact, you can see the flashing red obstruction lights atop these beasts from north Bismarck.

There appear to be two clusters of them and will soon total 60 towers in all. They are all accessible by service roads for the curious, but you MUST check in before you go out there. The roads are all marked No Trespassing for visitors who have not checked in.

This picture was taken by moonlight Saturday night from the section line road. While the generators turned by these big boys do make some noise, they are deceptively quiet. Because of that, they’re kinda weird to watch. The 80-foot blades move pretty quickly for something so huge.