Badlands & The Black Hills

No words of mine can describe these Bad Lands.  One set of buttes, with cones & minarets, gives place in next mile to natural freaks of different variety never dreamed of by mortal man.....The painters' whole palette  is in one bluff.  -Fredrick Remington, American Landscape Painter & Exporer.

Located in southwestern South Dakota, Badlands was established as a National Monument in 1939 & became a National Park in 1978.  The south half is located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation & is co-managed  with the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

We left the interstate to take this scenic drive through Badllands.  We came across this beautiful statue called Dignity *Earth & Sky*.  It was truly breath-taking, both Dignity & our ride through Badlands.

We saw our first ever Prairie Dog!  They were everywhere.  So cute!  They leave their holes & other small animals take over.  

Wish you were here with us!