We're not talking about the renowned national park in the southwest ... but visitors are free to take as many pictures as they like. While Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park may be a lesser ...

Badlands National Park is full of geological oddities ... Plan your hike near sunrise or sunset for the best color and light for pictures.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - In 2016, a geology intern at Badlands National Park spotted a light gray object on the rocks that caught her attention. When she took a closer look, the intern realized ...

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 ...

Yet there is a richness to this desolation. These same haunting buttes draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape. Most come to drive along the Wall ...

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.

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 ...