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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.
Byway follows original Central Pacific railway grade west of Promontory Summit, the site of the completion of the First transcontinental railroad at Golden Spike National Historic Site. Also a Utah Scenic Byway. [15] [91] [92] I Wild Rivers Back Country Scenic Byway: New Mexico: 13 21 La Junta Point in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument
In 1929, the South Dakota Dept. of Agriculture published an advertisement to lure settlers to the state. On this map they called the Badlands, "The Wonderlands", promising "...marvelous scenic and recreational advantages". The standard size for a homestead was 160 acres (0.3 sq mi; 0.6 km 2). Being in a semi-arid, wind-swept environment, this ...
Federal Highway Administration – via Google Books. Levin, David Richard (1988). Scenic Byways. Federal Highway Administration – via Google Books. National Geographic Society (2013). National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways. Washington, DC: National Geographic. ISBN 978-1-4262-1014-3 – via Google Books. Reader's Digest ...
At milepost 17.180 (27.649 km), Highway 87 intersects U.S. Route 16A. [1] From this point onward, the road is part of the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway. [5] The two routes form a concurrency and proceed east, passing Legion Lake. [3] The roads split after just under 1.5 miles (2.4 km). [6]
The Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway is a National Scenic Byway in the Black Hills National Forest in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota.It is a loop which is composed of portions of U.S. Route 16A (US 16A), South Dakota Highway 244 (SD 244), SD 87, and SD 89.
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 terminating at exit 248 of I-90 east of Reliance .
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.