We'd heard that in spring, South Dakota's Badlands erupted in blooms ... soils born of eons of sedimentation followed by erosion, the Badlands was melting before our eyes. We scrambled up the ...

The closest major airport to Badlands National Park is in Rapid City, South Dakota. From there ... This contributes to erosion and harms the distinctive formations that give the park its name.

Geology enthusiasts flock to iconic destinations like South Dakota’s Badlands National ... The heart of Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah is carved by erosion into gently sloping badlands striped in lavender ...

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.

Beautiful colors in the sky and in the hills of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park. Prairie dogs check out their surroundings in the fields of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s North and South Units ... thousands of years’ worth of weathering and erosion. The badlands of North Dakota came to be known as Theodore Roosevelt National ...