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  2. Is Badlands National Park worth visiting? Yes, and here's why.

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    First proposed as Wonderland National Park back in 1922, the name Badlands pays homage to the Lakota people, who long called the area mako sica, literally 'bad lands,'" according to the National ...

  3. Badlands National Park - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. South Dakota Highway 240 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Theodore Roosevelt National Park - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a national park of the United States in the badlands of western North Dakota comprising three geographically separated areas. This park pays homage to the time that Theodore Roosevelt spent in the surrounding area and in the Dakota Territories before they were states. Roosevelt lived in the area after his ...

  6. South Dakota Highway 40 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Makoshika State Park - Wikipedia

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    Makoshika State Park ("ma-KO-sh(ih)kuh" from the Lakota Mako sica, meaning 'bad land' or 'land that is bad') [2] is a nature preserve and public recreation area located on the southeast side of Glendive in Dawson County, Montana. The state park encompasses badlands containing dinosaur fossils and rock from the Hell Creek Formation. [2]

  8. Badlands Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The main-belt asteroid (315495) 2008 AQ 3 was discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Fabrizio Tozzi while using the Badlands Observatory telescope remotely via the Internet in 2008. [3] Asteroid 26715 South Dakota, discovered by Ron Dyvig in 2001, is named after the U.S. state South Dakota, where the Badlands observatory is located. [4]

  9. Buffalo Gap National Grassland - Wikipedia

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    It also surrounds Badlands National Park and Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. In what is known as the Conata Basin region of the grassland, the most successful Black-footed ferret reintroduction program undertaken by the federal government , has established a small but sustainable population of these previously extirpated mammals.