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

    Badlands

    National Park South Dakota

GPS Activities

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Download book to complete the GPS Adventure.
Image links to 2.5 MB PDF Activity Book
 

Looking for a family-friendly park adventure? Download the GPS Adventure Activity Book (1.5 MB pdf) and use it to navigate to points of interest. Your GPS-enabled device will lead you to natural features, trails, and wayside exhibits where you will learn more about the park. Please remember to leave fossils, flowers, rocks, and artifacts where you find them. Collecting in the park is illegal. It also illegal to leave items behind or create human-made geocaches.

 

Teachers and homeschool families might also want to check out the Badlands EarthCache Lesson (140 KB pdf).

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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.