Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park entrance is about six miles south of Wall. The Badlands starts in South Dakota and ends in Arizona. (I was informed that the Badlands start in North Dakota) We have been to both ends and sure like the weather in the north the best. The Badlands are interesting to see because they are bleak but because of a wet season there is green in the area. The yellow color in some of the pictures is the bottom of a salty sea millions of years ago. Most of the grey colors are from the ash deposited form the many volcanoes in this area. 

Badlands

Yellow Mounds

There is prairie bordering the badlands with a neat sign before a boardwalk.

Boardwalk

Fossil Exhibit Trail was a boardwalk with glass topped boxes enclosing skulls of local dinosaurs. People were allowed to climb anywhere but over the ledges of the main visitor areas which were paroled by park rangers.

Green Grass

Ash