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Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča [3]) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km 2 ) [ 1 ] of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles , along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.
Fort Hale: Lyman: 1870: Also called Post at Lower Brulé Indian Agency or Fort Lower Brule. Fort Hutchinson: Yankton: Fort James: 1865: Also known as Fort la Roche or Fort des Roche. Camp Jennison: Roberts: 1863: Fort Lookout: Brule: 1856: Camp Marshall: Grant: 1863: Fort Meade: Meade: 1878: Known in its early days as Camp Ruhlen and Camp ...
More than 1 million people visited Badlands National Park last year. Here's why you may want to consider joining them.
Bryant is a city in Hamlin County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Watertown, South Dakota Micropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 471 at the 2020 census .
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In the south, east of the Black Hills, lie the South Dakota Badlands. The Black Hills are in the southwestern part of South Dakota and extend into Wyoming. This range of low mountains covers 6,000 sq. miles (15,500 km 2 .) with mountains that rise from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 m) above their bases.
Interior is located along the White River approximately one mile from Badlands National Park. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 1.35 square miles (3.50 km 2 ), of which 1.34 square miles (3.47 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
In 1874, George Armstrong Custer led the U.S. Army Black Hills Expedition, which set out on July 2 from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota. Its mission was to look for suitable locations for a fort, find a route to the southwest, and to investigate the ...