Day 5: Exploring the Park! Badlands National Park, South Dakota 4:30 am sunrise N.B.: “The Badlands have the most significant mixed-grass prairie, the best known Oligocene fossil resources in the world, and the area is filled with remnants of sea and turtle shells, leading proof this area was once under water.” For camping […]
USA Road Trip 2016
American Road Trip 2016, covering 9 Mid-western and Western US States.
Day 4: Badlands Nat’l Park, South Dakota
Day 4: Badlands National Park, South Dakota Best kept secret of all National Parks Amazing, magical, surreal, moonscape, playground wonderland… I could go on and on. Stepping back in (geological) time. A quick look at the Badlands will reveal that they were deposited in layers. The layers are composed of tiny grains […]
Day 4: 530 miles – River Falls, WI. to Sioux Falls and Chamberlain, S.D.
Scenic Stop: Sioux Falls, South Dakota Mistake Number One! Falls Park: Although a beautiful spectacle the stench was overwhelming. With burning eyes and throats, we finally had to give up the day and run for the car! South Dakota’s Big Sioux 13th dirtiest in the nation Listed as the 13th dirtiest in the nation Despite years […]