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Nov 12, 2020 · Plan Your Visit. The park offers a variety of activities -- from hiking, to paved and unpaved roads, to camping! Below you will find various options for activities and camping within Badlands National Park.
Nov 5, 2009 · Location: South Dakota. Established: November 10, 1978. Size: 244,300 acres. They call it The Wall. It extends for a hundred miles through the dry plains of South Dakota—a huge natural barrier...
Aug 31, 2020 · Badlands National Park has something to offer every visitor. Families? Attend a Junior Ranger Program and hike Fossil Exhibit Trail, a great place for little ones to explore. Experienced hikers? Check out a social trail and backcountry camp for the night. Sore feet from days of exploring?
Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 million years old.
Badlands National Park protects 244,000 acres of striking rock formations and expansive mixed-grass prairie lands. The area is home to a variety of wildlife including bison, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, prairie dogs, and even one of America’s most endangered species, the black footed ferret.
1 day ago · By Kurt Repanshek - May 10th, 2024. In what is now a stark and demanding landscape of siltstones, channel sandstones, and gravel deposits at Badlands National Park, the fossilized skull of a new genus of hornless deer has been discovered. About the size of a house cat, this small deer roamed a semi-tropical environment of open woodlands some 32 ...
With so much natural beauty to explore and wildlife to spot over its 244,000 acres, Badlands National Park has visitors all year long, though it is busiest in summer. The park is open 24 hours a day, with a higher volume of people visiting at midday.
