There are only eight developed hiking trails in Badlands National Park but the entire 244,000 acres of the park are open to ...

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 ...

Have you ever been to the Badlands? We're not talking about the renowned national park in the southwest portion of South Dakota. Instead, our scope is aimed 420 miles nearly due south, in Northern ...

Nowhere on Earth is as rich in quantity and quality of the prehistoric creatures' remains as the Badlands' arid Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where digs are still under way.

21-Year-Old Hiker Falls to Death While Taking Photo from Arizona Mountain Peak Temperatures at Badlands National Park neared 100 ... participating in outdoor activities," the department said ...

That includes Lydia Jones, who was fired from her first permanent park service job last month at Badlands National Park after working as a seasonal ranger in multiple parks for several years.

Lydia Jones at Badlands National Park. Photo courtesy of Lydia Jones Lydia Jones is originally from Texas, but she fell in love with South Dakota after moving here in 2021 to work at Badlands ...

The terminations are ongoing, and they include 1,000 National Parks employees, employees like former Park Ranger Lydia Jones, who worked at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. She joins me now.