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

    Badlands

    National Park South Dakota

Brochures

Badlands National Park publishes a series of brochures and flyers about park destinations, resources and other topics of interest.

Maps

2012 Park Newspaper

2012 Ranger-Guided Programs

Learn More About the Badlands

 

Did You Know?

The rich hue of the Yellow Mounds paleosols

The yellow and red layers in the badlands formations are fossilized soils, called paleosols. Fossil root traces, burrows, and animal bones found within the soils provide scientists with evidence of environmental and climatic changes that occurred in the badlands over time.