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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.
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 Sturgis. New Fort Pierre ...
More than 1 million people visited Badlands National Park last year. Here's why you may want to consider joining them.
South Dakota Highway 248 (SD 248) is a state highway in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The highway travels parallel to I-90 less than one mile (1.6 km) away from it. It travels through Lyman , Jones , and Jackson counties starting near the entrance to Badlands National Park at an intersection with SD 240 (just south of exit 131 on I-90) and ...
Rapid City AAB aircraft (e.g., for Bombardier training used the Butte County #1 Precision Bombing Range (Newell Bombing Range) 37 mi (60 km) North of the base, Rapid City #2 Precision Bombing Range (Pierre Bombing Range) 129 mi (208 km) East, the Air to Ground Range of 11,532 acres (46.67 km 2) [3] & 33 mi (53 km) East-Northeast, and the Air to Air Range 33 mi (53 km) Southeast. [4]
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.
SD 240 winding through Badlands National Park, July 2013. SD 240 begins in Wall at exit 110 of Interstate 90 (I-90). It travels south to Badlands National Park, where it turns southeast. At the Badlands Headquarters at Cedar Pass, the highway turns northeast, ending at exit 131 of I-90 near Cactus Flat. Because the highway enters a national ...
SD 407 (not shown on FDOT map) is a short state highway in Oglala Lakota County which turns into Nebraska Highway 87 (N-87), SD 407-N-87, serves as a connector route between U.S. Route 18 (U.S. 18) in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and U.S. 20 in Rushville, Nebraska.