Petra_meet the team
Celebrating my alma mater's homecoming in the parade with my family.

Petra Vanderford

Office Coordinator

When did you join the Visit Fargo-Moorhead team?

October 2022

What do you enjoy most about working at Visit Fargo-Moorhead?

I love sharing entertainment ideas with visitors who come to the Welcome Center! My family's favorites are the buffalo at the Red River Zoo, the Ferris wheel at SCHEELS, and mini-golf at Thunder Road.

Share a fun fact about yourself.

My grandparents were 100% Scandinavian, and I have an arm full of Nordic-inspired tattoos. Think folk art, floral, the trees grown by my midwestern grandfather.

What's a Fargo-Moorhead experience you consider a "can't miss"?

The Historic Moorhead Dairy Queen is open seasonally and less than five minutes from our house. On March 1st of every year – rain, shine, or snow – my daughters and I join the line wrapped around the building to grab our first dilly bars of the season.

If you could only eat one Fargo-Moorhead food forever, what would it be?

I could eat the NoDak Smash Burger from Unicorn Park in Brewhalla every day of the year!