Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... Many visitors only experience the park by driving the Badlands Loop Road in the North Unit, which sightseers can complete in an hour.

All of the developed trails in Badlands National Park start from parking lots along the Loop Road making it really easy to ...

Each summer as many as 10,000 visitors to Badlands National Park discover the real reason the park was created. Off the park's paved Loop Road, under a large shelter, they can watch researchers ...

Badlands National Park is full of geological oddities, but the 1.5-mile-round-trip Notch Trail is one of the best treks in the South Dakota park. There's something distinctly eerie about the Badlands.

Although the loop stays open year-round, large stretches do close for the winter season from December to mid-April. Check the National Park Service's website for more details on road closures.