• Badlands formations against the blue sky; photo by Rikk Flohr

    Badlands

    National Park South Dakota

Management

Laws and Policies

Superintendent's Compendium (410 KB PDF) - Specific regulations of Badlands National Park established under the discretionary authority of the Park Superintendent

Did You Know?

From a 1950 postcard, a black and white photo of the rugged badlands formations

The 1928 bill originally proposing a park in the South Dakota badlands used the name -Teton National Park - in the hopes of avoiding the negative-sounding name of Badlands. Teton was a title later applied to Grand Teton National Park.