Badlands National Park - Part I

• Park is 244,000 acres Badlands
• 64,000 acres National Wilderness
• Buffalo Gap: Rolling sea of grass that surrounds the Badlands
• Approx. 1 Million visitors each year from all over the World
• Established as a National Monument in 1939
• Redesignated Badlands National Park in 1978
• Largest expanse of protected prairie ecosystem in the National Park system
• Considered one of the world's richest mammal fossil beds
• 50% of Badlands Park is co-managed with Oglala Lakota Nation

We try to put people or cars in the pictures to provide perspective



Do you see the boy in the pic below, on the ledge? You can click on any picture to enlarge.









Jim