Last updated: December 5, 2025
Place
Buckhorn Trailhead
Quick Facts
Amenities
2 listed
Trailhead, Trash/Litter Receptacles
The Buckhorn Trail is an 11.4mi loop that travels through prairie dog towns, sagebrush terraces, deep canyons, and high open prairies, allowing you to experience a variety of plant and animal life. As you take in this landscape of layered hills, and strangely shaped rock formations, it might feel like you’ve left the flat farmlands of North Dakota and entered another planet. Roosevelt himself once described the badlands as “so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”