A "Homecooking" sign, perched on the side of a gravel road in southwestern South Dakota, stops me ... buttes draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape.
The closest major airport to Badlands National Park is in Rapid City, South Dakota. From there, visitors can drive for about an hour to the North Unit of the park. The Ben Reifel Visitor Center on the ...
With 650 residents, a jackalope statue, a 76,000-square-foot drugstore-museum, this tiny South Dakota town is also a gateway to a national park and forest.
The Little Missouri River winds all the way through North and South Dakota, Missouri, Montana, and Wyoming, but the most beautiful places to see it are certainly in the Badlands. The harsh canyons ...