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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.
Huset's Speedway (formerly known as Badlands Motor Speedway) is a 3/8-mile dirt oval racetrack located in Brandon, South Dakota, United States. Its name was changed to Badlands in 2015 when it was sold to Chuck Brennan, the owner of the Badlands Entertainment Group. [2] [3] The track opened in the 1950s. [3]
More than 1 million people visited Badlands National Park last year. Here's why you may want to consider joining them.
Located 10 miles (16.1 km) north and one mile (1.6 km) east of Crookston, Nebraska, right north of the state line (at which the Nebraska paved road ends and becomes gravel in South Dakota). The towns (Lakeview and Purewater) are accessible only via dirt roads.
South Dakota Highway 240 (SD 240), also signed as the Badlands Loop, is a 40.033-mile-long (64.427 km) state highway in southeastern Pennington and northwestern Jackson counties in South Dakota, United States, that travels through the eastern portion of Badlands National Park.
The county was created as a part of the Dakota Territory in 1875, although it remains unorganized. [4] [5] Its largest community is Pine Ridge. The county lies entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and contains part of Badlands National Park. It is one of five South Dakota counties entirely on an Indian reservation. [6]
South Dakota Highway 40A (SD 40A) was a short spur route in the east part of Badlands National Park. This route was originally part of SD 40. At that time, SD 40 exited the park to the northeast, and continued east with US 16. Around 1970, SD 40 was rerouted south from the park to a new alignment south of the White River.
The White River Fauna are fossil animals found in the White River Group of South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska in the United States.In southwest South Dakota and northwest Nebraska, these fossils are characteristic of the White River Badlands (including Badlands National Park), though they can be found far beyond the limits of the White River watershed.