South Dakota’s Badlands National Park is one of several national parks to visit while in the Black Hills. It offers geological formations, wildlife viewing, history and dark skies programming all ...

Beautiful colors in the sky and in the hills of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park. Prairie dogs check out their surroundings in the fields of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park. A bighorn ram ...

What would I do with a five-day mini-getaway? Let's see, maybe New York City, San Francisco, Miami or - South Dakota? Let's be honest, the Mount Rushmore State doesn't generally come to mind when ...

Don't let the name fool you. There's nothing bad about Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Spanning 244,000 acres, Badlands' striking buttes, canyons and prairies are home to "many resilient ...

In a place like Badlands National Park, you don't find a lot of lengthy South Dakota hiking trails. There's a good reason for that. In a spot as desolate (yet still stunningly beautiful) as the ...

The Midwest has some of the country's most scenic campsites, from the windswept landscapes of the Dakotas to the Northwoods shorelines of Minnesota. A recently released list from the online travel ...

All at once, we noticed the teeth — a whole row of them, big, gray and pointed. During several days of hiking at Badlands National Park, our girls had been determined to spot a fossil, stopping to ...