South Dakota’s Badlands National Park is one of several national parks ... I have stayed in a Cedar Pass Lodge cabin and recommend them. At night, the stars shone bright. In the morning, I ...

Don't let the name fool you. There's nothing bad about Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Spanning 244,000 acres, Badlands' striking buttes, canyons and prairies are home to "many resilient ...

Explore Badlands National Park in South Dakota, named one of USA TODAYs Most Treasured Views in America for 2025.

The closest major airport to Badlands National Park is in Rapid City, South Dakota. From there ... rare black-footed ferrets roam this area at night, now that a small but stable population has come ...

Night sky in the Badlands. Travel South Dakota photo A dark sky designation at a national park highlights the importance of minimizing light pollution, Durkin said. Any park project will need to ...

Memorial Day marked the beginning of the summer schedule for park ranger programs at Badlands National Park in South Dakota ... (Wheelchair accessible). Night Sky Program (Daily; May 27 to ...

Unleash your inner space nerd at these incredible late-night stargazing festivals, hosted across the U.S. national park system every summer.

Mike Pflaum is former superintendent of Badlands National Park and now serves as special adviser for the Badlands Conservancy ...

and published recently in the Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, a journal. Mattison Shreero and Ed Welsh, both rangers at Badlands National Park, led the research effort.