Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... and her story is now part of the park’s history. Keep a safe distance from all wildlife. The National Park Service recommends a ...

Much of this volcanic ash comes from the Great Basin, a geographic area within which the states of Utah and Nevada lie today.

Badlands National Park is full of geological oddities, but the 1.5-mile-round-trip Notch Trail is one of the best treks in the South Dakota park. There's something distinctly eerie about the Badlands.