"I wish I were with you out among the sage brush, the great brittle cottonwoods and the sharply-channeled, barren buttes." - Theodore Roosevelt
Painted Canyon Webcam
As the gently undulating prairie breaks into the bewildering, jagged terrain of the badlands, the view from this overlook has inspired, amazed, and terrified travelers from the past to the present. This view from near the Painted Canyon Visitor Center looks north into the park.
Buck Hill, in the center of the image, is the second-highest point in the South Unit. The hill is just under 2.5 miles from the camera.
This camera is used with other scientific monitoring equipment to study the air quality in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Get all the data collected at this station on the NPS Air Quality website.