From bison encounters to ancient wilderness, these are the Most Treasured Views in South Dakota. Here’s how to see them.

The Black Hills in South Dakota ... 45-degree-angled “Badlands Ladder” to an endless viewpoint of the White River Valley, known as a ghostly paleontological site with fossils dating back ...

South Dakota Mines’ campus is home to The Museum of Geology. Visitors to the museum can see mounted skeletons of dinosaurs, meteorites and rare fossils from the nearby White River Badlands.

So, too, in these ancient spiders, whose silvery tapeta still shine in the fossils. “They're so reflective—they clearly stick out at you,” says study coauthor Paul Selden, a paleontologist ...

Specifically, it's in the Sage Creek Wilderness Area of the Badlands National Park. According to the Remote Footprint Project ...