Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... which is entirely within the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. Many visitors only experience the park by driving the Badlands Loop ...

(Even Lakota tribes and early French trappers ended up dubbing the area with the same moniker.) Despite the sacred, slightly off-putting vibe of Badlands National Park, the stretch of dramatic ...

Lydia Jones at Badlands National Park. Photo courtesy of Lydia Jones Lydia Jones is originally from Texas, but she fell in love with South Dakota after moving here in 2021 to work at Badlands ...

A 22-year-old man from Missouri died this week while on a hike in an unmarked area of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, police said. According to a news release from the Pennington County ...

That includes Lydia Jones, who was fired from her first permanent park service job last month at Badlands National Park after working as a seasonal ranger in multiple parks for several years.

In fact, there are six National Park Service sites in this expansive state, featuring everything from Mount Rushmore to the awe-inspiring Badlands ... from the Indigenous Lakota people, who ...

Recent visitors praised Badlands National Park's excellent ... was the first cave to be declared a national park. According to Lakota oral tradition, the cave is a sacred place from which humans ...