The closest major airport to Badlands National Park is in Rapid City, South Dakota. From there ... Missile National Historic Site is located just off Route 90 near this east entrance of the North Unit ...

Badlands National Park, located 75 miles east of Rapid City, South Dakota, offers the nearest regional airport. The Northeast Entrance is located 8 miles south of Interstate 90. Badlands National ...

Badlands National Park is full of geological oddities, but the 1.5-mile-round-trip Notch Trail is one of the best treks in the South Dakota park. There's something distinctly eerie about the Badlands.

A "Homecooking" sign, perched on the side of a gravel road in southwestern South Dakota, stops me ... draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape.

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