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 ...

A "Homecooking" sign, perched on the side of a gravel ... These same haunting buttes draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape. Most come to drive along ...

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

Much of this volcanic ash comes from the Great Basin, a geographic area within which the states of Utah and Nevada lie today.