Badlands National Park has an Open Hike Policy giving you access to all 244,000 acres. This means that when you decide to go ...

Operating Season: Cedar Pass Lodge is normally open from mid-April through mid-October depending on the weather. 2023 dates were 4/21/23 through 10/23/2023 ADA Rooms Available: Yes Phone Number ...

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 ...

At first blush, "it doesn't sound like the best place to go," admits Christine Czazasty, the chief of interpretation and resource education for Badlands National Park. After all, the National ...

Rave Run: Badlands National Park, South Dakota Miles of rugged paths cut through the rocky buttes and spires of of one of the world's richest fossil beds. by The Runner’s World Editors Published ...

Driving through southwest South Dakota, Badlands National Park seems to appear from nowhere, suddenly appearing in the sweeping valley landscape. Millions of years of erosion have carved out ...

Eight months into the job, Badlands National Park superintendent Paige Baker has faced a variety of challenges and responsibilities that come with heading South Dakota's biggest national park.

These four bison are the first to roam an expanded bison range in Badlands National Park in nearly 150 years. The South Dakota park secured more than 34 miles of new land for its 1,200 bison.