Badlands National Park – Interior, South Dakota

Badlands National Park in Interior, South Dakota protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.
The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres of the park as a designated wilderness area, and is one site where the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in the world, was reintroduced to the wild. Native Americans used this area for hunting grounds and for religious practices including the famous “Ghost Dance”.

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On the prairie portion of the park pronghorns abound.

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