Badlands National Park, South Dakota
First named "mako sica" (meaning "land bad") by the Lakota people, the Badlands area is a fascinating, surreal landscape of jagged, eroding pinnacles, spires, fissures and canyons, gentle grassy mesas and buttes, and vast seas of mixed prairie grassland. It is a hard, rugged unforgiving desert land that can be as treacherous as it is magnificent.
The Badlands was established as a National Monument in 1939 and a National Park in 1978. The park covers an area of 244,000 acres which includes the largest mixed grass prairie in the United States.
Read MoreThe Badlands was established as a National Monument in 1939 and a National Park in 1978. The park covers an area of 244,000 acres which includes the largest mixed grass prairie in the United States.
The day's last light on the "Pinnacles"; Badlands, South Dakota.
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