Badlands National Park, South Dakota (Part One)

We spent about four hours in the Badlands, driving the tour road and getting out whenever things looked particularly interesting, which was often. We began on the western end of the park where the road runs along the edge of the plateau, enabling us to look down into the badlands. As we drove east, the road dipped down and ran along the edge of the plains with the badlands rising above us to the north. For reasons I’m not sure I can explain, I switched from my new camera to my old one right about where the road wound down from the plateau. So it seems natural to split my posts on the Badlands at that same spot. What follows are about half my photos from the earlier, western, upper, good-camera portion of our visit in the approximate order in which I took them.

We’d only been the park for a few minutes when a guy driving a huge camper in the opposite direction flagged us down and informed us that a herd of Bighorn Sheep were grazing just over the next rise.

We referred to these as the “Candy Corn Hills.” Or I did anyway.

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1 Response to Badlands National Park, South Dakota (Part One)

  1. jeff says:

    My kids did pushups there.

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