Badlands National Park is in South Dakota. Its dramatic landscapes span layered rock formations, steep canyons and towering spires. Bison, Bighorn Sheep and Prairie Dogs inhabit its sprawling grasslands. The Badlands Loop Road (Highway 240) winds past scenic lookouts along the Badlands Cliff Shelf Wall. Several hiking trails are available depending on your skill and your fear level of hiking narrow ledges along the canyons.
The Lakota saw this area as bountiful hunting with transitory camps. Then came the French trappers, frustrated by the lands sharp peaks and crumbling rock, regarding the area as “Bad Lands,” therefore the name.
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