A "Homecooking" sign, perched on the side of a gravel road in southwestern South Dakota, stops me ... Benton explains: The Badlands formation consists mostly of claystone, hundreds of feet ...

An online travel guide named the 60 campsites with the best views across the U.S., including one in South Dakota.

The closest major airport to Badlands National Park is in Rapid City, South Dakota. From there ... This scenic road takes you up to the Cathedral Spires, beautiful rock formations with rugged hikes to ...

In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the ...

There are only eight developed hiking trails in Badlands National Park but the entire 244,000 acres of the park are open ...

Lovers of all things geology will appreciate these strange and beautiful cannonball concretions; a North Dakota classic that'll leave you scratching your head.

complete with walled ramparts and rock windows. The Dry River Channel, 1.4 miles from the Badlands Trailhead, is a narrow canyon where an Ice Age river once flowed. I’m going to recommend that you ...

The ground underneath South Dakota's prairies consists primarily ... the stark and dramatic expanses of the region's badlands, and the impressive rock formations that lie there.