Badlands National Park protects a beautiful eroded landscape of white, yellow, and red hues covering 244,000 acres. It is a massive sprawling park that is broken into three sections known as the North Unit, Stronghold Unit, and Palmer Creek Unit. Despite its gargantuan size, there are only about 11-miles of maintained trails and every single…
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Best of Badlands National Park – Guide to the Top 7 Activities
The term “badlands” conjures up images of a harsh and brutal desert environment. While that can be true they can also be stunningly beautiful places. “Badland” simply refers to an area of land where heavy erosion and soil quality combine to make them bad for farming. You can find them all over the world but…
Petrified Forest Camping & Backpacking
The sound of my alarm going off jolted me awake. I unzipped my sleeping bag and crawled out into the brisk night air. Only a day earlier we had realized that the Petrified Forest allowed wilderness camping. Now, here I was crawling out of my tent and into one of the darkest skies in North America….