At first blush, "it doesn't sound like the best place to go," admits Christine Czazasty, the chief of interpretation and resource education for Badlands National Park. After all, the National ...

There are so many things to do in Badlands National Park! The jaw-dropping beauty of ... This indirect light creates blue ...

A Bighorn sheep navigates a treacherous rock formation in Badlands ... landscape and building a community that now counts an estimated 47,000 members. Badlands National Park’s 244,000 acres ...

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 ...

A view of the stratification — or layering — in the rocky hills of Badlands National Park. Red grass fields in Badlands National Park. A bighorn ram rests in the hills of South Dakota's Badlands.

During several days of hiking at Badlands National Park, our girls had been determined to spot a fossil, stopping to scan the ground constantly. They were looking for any differences in texture ...