The Door Trail is an opening in a Cliff Shelf Wall at the Badlands National Park, that introduces hikers to a rugged world. While nearby Window Trail allows visitors to look over the wall, the Door Trail lets you walk through it. A short boardwalk made of recycled planks (disabled accessable) takes hikers through a natural passageway to a viewing platform. Beyond that, I followed a relatively flat path across the formidable landscape to overlooks with views into the deep and steep eroded canyons. You will feel completely immersed in the badlands on this 1-mile round trip hike with only a 50 feet of elevation gain.
The Door Trail leads to the broken landscape that earned this area the name Badlands.
This is a relatively easy trail for a person new to the activity.
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