Badlands National Park, South Dakota (Photodisc)
Badlands National Park, South Dakota (South Dakota Tourism)
Badlands National Park, South Dakota (PhotoDisc)
What to do in Badlands National Park
South Dakota makes for an intriguing family vacation, offering a fun-filled combination of natural beauty, unusual geological features, and distinct Native American and Westward Expansion heritage.
A good starting point in Rapid City is the Journey Museum, which recounts two versions of Great Plains history: a scientific explanation based on fossils and geologic cross-sections as well as the mythological explanation from the Lakota Sioux. Check out the Native American exhibit with its hologram of a woman talking in a tepee for an especially revealing glimpse of regional folklore.
Nearby, the Black Hills region of South Dakota, approximately 65 miles wide and 125 miles long, includes five national parks and memorials. The most well-known is the...
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