Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park is an American national park in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2)[2] of sharply eroded rocks, and the largest undisturbed prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park. The South Unit is co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe.[3]
| Badlands National Park | |
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IUCN Category II (National Park) | |
| File:MK00609 Badlands.jpg Badlands National Park | |
| Location in the United States##Location in South Dakota | |
| Location | South Dakota, United States |
| Nearest city | Rapid City, South Dakota |
| Area | 242,756 acres (98,240 ha) |
| Visitors | 1,008,942 (in 2018)[1] |
| Website | Badlands National Park |
The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km2) of the park as a designated wilderness area.[4] It is a site where the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in the world, was reintroduced to the wild.[5]
The South Unit, or Stronghold District,[3] includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances,[6] a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range,[7] and Red Shirt Table, the park's highest point at 3,340 feet (1,020 m).[8]
Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. Badlands was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978.[9]
The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. The movies Dances with Wolves (1990) and Thunderheart (1992) were partially filmed in Badlands National Park.[10]
Badlands National Park Media
- BadlandsNP L7 16oct00.jpg
False-color satellite image of the park
- White River Badlands of South Dakota panorama.jpg
White River Badlands of South Dakota panorama
- Badlands in South Dakota.jpg
Badlands in the northern portion of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
- South Dakota - Sylvan Lake through Bad Lands - NARA - 68148952 (cropped).jpg
Badlands in 1939 (45 miles southeast of Rapid City)
- Visitor Center PA100237.JPG
Visitor Center at Badlands NP
View of the badlands from the Cedar Pass Campground.
The Whooping Crane, Grus americana at the Calgary zoo.
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Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA.
- Window Trail PA090087.JPG
Boardwalk to the Windows, , Badlands NP
References
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- ↑ Maddrey, Joseph 2016. The Quick, the Dead and the Revived: the many lives of the western film. McFarland. Page 184. ISBN 9781476625492.