A 22-year-old man from Missouri died this week while on a hike in an unmarked area of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, police said. According to a news release from the Pennington County ...

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 ...

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.

Among those is an Interior woman, Lydia Jones, who has served four years at Badlands National Park. On Feb. 14, the Department of Government Efficiency announced thousands of job cuts targeted ...

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

Another popular route is Spearfish Canyon, a 22-mile stretch that passes by ... An American Bison bull in Badlands National Park. The Black Elk Peak Fire Tower looks out over Custer State Park.

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.

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 ...