Driving Badlands Loop Road to the visitor center takes ... Wall Drug rose to fame back in the day for offering free ice cold water to travelers before it was commonly available.

The National Park Service recently issued a prospectus seeking bids for management of Cedar Pass Lodge, the only lodging ...

Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... In addition to other staples, such as comfortable hiking shoes, sun block, maps, rain gear and water bottles, be sure to bring ...

Have you ever been to the Badlands? We're not talking about the ... Rock formations jut over 100 feet above the land and water below, looking down on the Smoky Hill River. The unique landscape ...

Long before that, of course, countless fossils will be washed away. Water and wind continue to carve the Badlands, claiming up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) or more in some places each year.

The setting is the 35,000-square-mile region often referred to as the Canadian Badlands. The discovery of both coal and dinosaur bones in the late 1800s proved transformational. Nowhere on Earth ...