BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK

📍 : Balands, SD

( Badlands National Park )

🗺️ Description: Badlands National Park, which encompasses 244,000 acres of steeply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires surrounded by a mixed-grass prairie ecology, is situated in southwest South Dakota. The tall-grass prairie to the east and the short-grass prairie to the west are separated by the mixed-grass prairie.

💸 Price Range: $35.00 (4 people)

⭐️ Rating: me: 8/10

miles: 9.5/10

👀 Tips: Do not get too close to the edge! Make safe decisions and wear good walking shoes just in case you decide to walk down! (I wore clogs…)

📝: (Why is this land sacred?)

- Originally part of Sioux territory, the region surrounding Stronghold Table is respected more as a ceremonial sacred site than as a place to live. The United States gave the Sioux the assurance that the Badlands would always belong to them at the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

😊: Experience!

- It was very nice, lovely views. So pretty. Definitely would come back again. Weather was nice, cool… 63° F, was perfect weather.

- The prairie dogs were absolutely adorable… Miles and I wanted to grab one and bring them home with us so badly lol… Only thing stopping us was his momma telling us we couldnt.☹️💔

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