Badlands National Park

Yesterday and today we spent time in the Badlands National park. It is like nothing I have ever experienced before. One minute you’re cruising down I-90 and all you see is flat green fields. A turn to the left and you enter another world that looks like a moonscape more than anything. Time has eroded the land and left wonderful outcroppings and layered mountains of what looks like wet sand used to build sand castles. We stayed at Cedar Pass Campground inside the park. We took a 30 mile sunset drive to look at the wildlife and the views. Shopping and dinner followed at the famed Wall Drug.

In the morning Keegan and Michelle were the first up and took a quick walk. A short time later, a got a call on the radio and they were on the top of a good sized outcropping waving back at me.

After a few more hours at the Badlands, including a ranger talk on the plethora of fossils found in the area, a trip to a prairie dog town and we were off to our next stop near Mt Rushmore.