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Located
in southwestern South Dakota, Badlands National Park consists of 244,000
acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the
largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. The Badlands
Wilderness Area covers 64,000 acres and is the site of the reintroduction
of the black-footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America.
The Stronghold Unit is co-managed with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and includes
sites of 1890s Ghost Dances. Established as Badlands National Monument
in 1939, the area was redesignated "National Park" in 1978.
Over 11,000 years of human history pale to the ages old paleontological
resources. Badlands National Park contains the world's richest Oligocene
epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old. Scientists can study
the evolution of mammal species such as the horse, sheep, rhinoceros and
pig in the Badlands formations.
Operating Hours & Seasons
The park is open 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
Entrance fees are collected year round.
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| Communities
Surrounding Badlands National Park | |
| Note: The times listed below are approximate driving times to the park. | Interior, SD (3 min.
) Pop. 77 Kadoka, SD (27 min.
) Pop. 706 Wall, SD (28 min.
) Pop. 818 Scenic, SD (31 min.
) Pop. 87 Quinn, SD (31 min.
) Pop. 44 Porcupine, SD (32 min.
) Pop. 407 Manderson, SD (34 min.
) Philip, SD (37 min.
) Pop. 885 Belvidere, SD (38 min.
) Pop. 57
| Wasta, SD (39 min.
) Pop. 75 Kyle, SD (41 min.
) Pop. 970 Wounded Knee, SD (47 min.
) Pop. 328 Wanblee, SD (48 min.
) Pop. 641 Long Valley, SD (1 hr.
0 min.
) Allen, SD (1 hr.
3 min.
) Pop. 419 Pine Ridge, SD (1 hr.
3 min.
) Pop. 3,171 Batesland, SD (1 hr.
10 min.
) Pop. 88 Oglala, SD (1 hr.
12 min.
) Pop. 1,229
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