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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.
Badlands National Park. 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets, and swift fox roam one of the largest, protected mixed-grass prairies in the United States.
Badlands National Park — a U.S. national park located in western South Dakota; Pages in category "Badlands National Park" The following 8 pages are in this category ...
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 ...
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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] The county is named after the Oglala Lakota, a band of the Lakota people. Many of the county's inhabitants are members of this sub-tribe.
1938 poster promoting Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world Interactive map (incomplete) of the National Parks of the United States. The United States has 63 national parks , which are congressionally designated protected areas operated by the National Park Service , an agency of the Department of the Interior . [ 1 ]