New England, North Dakota is a very small town located twenty-five miles south of Dickinson on Highway 22. New England was founded in 1890 on the north side of the Cannonball River, below the twin Rainy Buttes.

New England is located approximately 20 miles northeast of the highest peak in North Dakota, White Butte, and approximately 20 miles east of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park grasslands and badlands.

Other sites of interest within an hour drive of New England are Medora, the Little Missouri River, the Enchanted Highway Metal Sculptures, the Assumption Abbey Monastery, Burning Coal Vein Pine Forest, and several Game & Fish Wildlife Management Areas such as the Cedar Dam Reservoir and Davis Dam Reservoir.