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 ...

Each tribe has a unique history, spirituality and tradition with the badlands. The national park protects more than 70,000 acres of these sacred lands, iconic wildlife and unique rock structures.

Thrilled at this brief sighting, Joe spent the next three days in South Dakota's Badlands National Park trying for another. 'Sometimes I spent more than six hours searching for it, only to get just a ...