Planning a trip to South Dakota? Our family took four kids on an epic western road trip, and I’m sharing our favorite ...

This New Mexico off-the-beaten-path wilderness offers a serene escape that looks like the Utah hoodoos and the Dakota ...

The closest major airport to Badlands National Park is in Rapid City, South Dakota. From there, visitors can drive for about an hour to the North Unit of the park. The Ben Reifel Visitor Center on the ...

While South Dakota embraces the past, it is at the same time ever-evolving. Explore Sioux Falls' growing culinary scene at ...

A "Homecooking" sign, perched on the side of a gravel road in southwestern South Dakota ... buttes draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape.

Les Winkeler For The Southern May 27, 2022 May 27, 2022 Updated Jul 2, 2022 BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK – Badlands National Park is a study in contradictions. The sprawling park, 244,000 acres, that ...

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.