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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.
More than 1 million people visited Badlands National Park last year. Here's why you may want to consider joining them.
SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — Montgomery’s Furniture announced the purchase of Conlin’s Furniture, located on west 41st Street. A news release says the Conlin’s Furniture location will be ...
Fort Hale: Lyman: 1870: 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 ...
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 ...
Rock art site; [5]: 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39FA447 #93001049: Edgemont Rock art site; [5]: 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39FA448 #93001050: Edgemont Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5]: 379, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39FA542 #93001051: Edgemont
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.
In 1874, George Armstrong Custer led the U.S. Army Black Hills Expedition, which set out on July 2 from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota. Its mission was to look for suitable locations for a fort, find a route to the southwest, and to investigate the ...