Greetings from Badlands National Park

By May 1993, I’d been road tripping and camping in various national parks for several weeks. I reached Badlands on my circuitous route home to Colorado from Alaska. Because I was anxious to get home to my own bed, I don’t think I gave the park the attention it deserves and hope to get back there some time.

Badlands

Sincerely,
Tracy

Badlands National Park

This park's sharply textured rock formations share a 244,000-acre landscape with the largest protected mixed-grass prairie in the United States.

State(s): South Dakota

Established: 1929

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