Badlands Wall, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA
One of the major landmarks of the northern Great Plains, the White River Badlands of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park can seem unreal in their fragile, otherworldly formations. At their heart is the Wall, a long scarp of substantial topographic relief that continues to recede in the face of erosion.
The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres of the park as a designated wilderness area and is the site of the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America.
Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The park is managed by the National Park Service.
The South Unit, or Stronghold Unit, is co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe and includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances,a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table, the park’s highest point at 3,340 feet.
Under the Mission 66 plan, the Ben Reifel Visitor Center was constructed for the monument in 1957–58. The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site.
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