Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... which is entirely within the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. Many visitors only experience the park by driving the Badlands Loop ...

(Even Lakota tribes and early French trappers ended up dubbing the area with the same moniker.) Despite the sacred, slightly off-putting vibe of Badlands National Park, the stretch of dramatic ...

In fact, there are six National Park Service sites in this expansive state, featuring everything from Mount Rushmore to the awe-inspiring Badlands ... from the Indigenous Lakota people, who ...

Recent visitors praised Badlands National Park's excellent ... was the first cave to be declared a national park. According to Lakota oral tradition, the cave is a sacred place from which humans ...