Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Badlands National Park in South Dakota is an amazing geological landscape of rugged beauty. These striking geologic deposits contain one of the world's richest fossil beds. The park's 244,000 acres protect an expanse of mixed-grass prairie where bison, bighorn sheep and prairie dogs live today.
For park information visit nps.gov/badl
For lodging information, visit cedarpasslodge.com.
This video is an excerpt from Finley-Holiday's "Western National Parks" Blu-ray and DVD. Available on location and at www.finleyholiday.com.
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[@eandsm4620]

My first time in the Badlands was 2011. Years prior, my husband & I would ride I 90 back east. Would he stop? Nope. So on a solo trip in 2011, I stopped, spent over 5 hours and didn't want to leave. Even saw it on my return trip back in 2011. Beautiful park!

[@prayforpatriots]

A big shout out to all the park rangers in the Badlands. I had a great camping trip because of your suggestions. Thank you.

[@teresaschneider6726]

First time at Badlands, l love it. It made me cry. It was beautiful and refreshing. I will be back. State out west are beautiful. Montana, Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming.! Better than east coast . Fresh air out in the west,

[@lewisguitarh2213]

Camped at the badlands with my friends nearly 2 years ago. It was one of my favourite weekends ever over in the United States, I will never forget it

[@baltichammer6162]

3:01 On the fossil walk my family discovered a freshly revealed bone sticking from a wall. It had rained a few hours before and was a new discovery according to a ranger. He said pretty much every good rain brings new fossils finds. Very interesting and unique area. Easy to see why its labeled Badlands. Well worth stopping if you're traveling by.

[@robertsander8509]

Going there this summer for my 3rd time. LOVE THE BADLANDS!

[@chuckmcclain2499]

i want to go there

[@RatDaddy3]

My Tour Group has justed visited there and it is amzling Beautiful and I love going there.Want to come back again.

[@jerrybear6440]

Thank you...

[@basportsfan325]

my fiance and i did a cross country road trip about a month ago and we stopped in badlands. All i could think about at work today was how much fun it was and how beautiful it was. I had to watch a video when i got off. I miss it so much.

[@MountainTopHomestead316]

We checked it out on way to Sturgis. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5yri5xorM-tpbs

[@EperogiLimousine]

That’s cool

[@kimmiller2871]

thank you for the beautiful video

[@royaleevangeline2038]

I’ve had that opportunity to see numerous national parks in the US. Badlands National Park is one of my favorite parks that I would rank as one of the top 5 national parks in the country. The Badlands is one of the most surreal and magnificent landscapes on the planet. That park is true national treasure.

[@MountainTopHomestead316]

I agree kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5yri5xorM-tpbs

[@jarmlu66]

This is amazing !, thank you for posting.

[@chiefamylee]

Love this video. Thanks.

[@grub32]

Badlands NP is so amazing, thanks for sharing this insightful info. Heading there again in July, CANT WAIT!

[@theolewell7535]

thanks

[@tranquility9325]

I found this bec it was featured on the bing homepage which peaked my curiosity..beautiful ty for sharing!

[@lorimccurdy4749]

This helped me a lot with my research brochure I am doing! Thanks!

[@MagicTikka]

Very nice video. Thank you

[@eliezerfrazer7892]

according to the theory of evolution, the badlands in south dakota has ben eroding for 500,000 years, and it is eroding 1 inch per year, so according to basic math, the land originally was 100 miles hyer then it is today, and that is trying to be considerate, the highest point in the badlands is 3,340 feet in elevation, and the lowest point is 2,460 feet, that is the difference of 580 feet, and if it is eroding 1 inch per year, it would only take 580 years, but at the start, the erosion would be slower than it is today, because of it being smaller, and from grass slowing the erosion down, so for those reasons, i would say it has only ben eroding at the longest for 1,000 years.

[@roverjesse]

Thank you very much, this gave me a lot of information on the Bad lands! Oh, by the way, last year, we went here, and I knew NOTHING, nothing at all! Until saw this, this just blew my mine, like a bomb exploding. I just didn't imagine what was there, and what I didn't see, besides, I didn't know thunder made the land go away, which made bones appear, and more I didn't know! Thank you for the video!

[@gpf5204]

Fantastic!

[@semirz1072]

looks lovely!!

[@baitcasterboys7466]

Semir Z if you haven't you have to go it's amazing!

[@jonneiss7562]

Incredible place, definitely worth a visit. Was hiking in there, saw some prairie dogs, watching the little guys pop their heads up. Bald eagle hovered over me and followed me around for a few minutes (I guess I was too big to consider for a meal). Was incredible. But hey, did come close to a couple of rattlers. So, if you are going to hike, check out the NPS safety guidelines...not a joke: www.nps.gov/badl/planyourvisit/safety.htm

[@xycrol]

It looks like the windows background screen but with mountains

[@xycrol]

I just went there and it looks so much like a dry windows do screensaver

[@joebidengaming5525]

Exactly

[@bossjyt7531]

Im here today haha cool

[@olddogcitypound5859]

R.I.P. CRAZY HORSE R.I.P. RUSSELL MEANS FIRST NATION FOREVER 🔥

[@ferdiemontenegro5436]

I would like to see it as soon as this school semester is over, do you think December is a good time to go?

[@williamotto7746]

Very interesting 🤔

[@interstateruler]

Almost desert like. I heard parts of South Dakota is semi arid

[@thephoenix3155]

It looks like tatoween, or something from Star Wars!

[@krow4249]

What season do you guys best recommend to go visit?

[@edwardbrewster8678]

sir I am going to have to get to badlands np

[@pamsimonson5500]

Cross this from in the winter and North Dakota for a 1000 miles Canada. Then you have Utah to cross thought for another 700 miles of real terrain.

[@franzbeckenbauer8461]

I would want to make a one week camp there .

[@joebidengaming5525]

There called the badlands for a reason

[@truecrimestories4369]

Check out this video about some interesting rock cliffs in *Kingman.* 👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWXJZGVthtmcntU It has multiple pits, or gouges, or caverns made in it that are any where from *1 ft diameter to 3 ft diameter.* Where did they come from?

[@TheBoondoggler]

BADLANDS

[@brocklee1996]

Can people grab fossils out there and bring them home if they find any?

[@finleyholiday]

No. Pretty sure that's a federal crime. National Parks main mission is to protect and preserve the natural resources for the enjoyment of all.

[@chubee1227]

who came here because of brave wilderness?????

[@Megadave4life]

If I do go to badlands indeed it is historical place where ya won’t be natives giving middle fingers to those historical presidents

[@enforcerjj2943]

+Mason Grimes, you'd be even luckier if you had a DENTIST in your backyard! :)

[@MountainTopHomestead316]

We just got to go, check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5yri5xorM-tpbs

[@optiumusprime731]

hmm

[@artmchugh5644]

50 seconds in and the. beauty and peace ruined by some friggin harley !

[@olddogcitypound5859]

Art Mchugh get used to it,I've lived several miles north of Deadwood on Hwy.85 for over 40 years and that's what brought me there my HARLEY✌

[@JohnJones-cp4wh]

@@olddogcitypound5859 Take him to sturgis sometime.

[@Klariss]

The history of Lakota Indians? I wonder if they tell how their ppl brutally murdered this wonderful Nation and about all the broken treaties and Wounded Knee Massacre...

[@Skinny-it8hj]

Pussy, get over it

[@louiswebtser]

Skinny1234 how about No

[@sunnatural1272]

No, the government will never tell the truth about all the massacres and mass graves, but, Our God sure is telling it with all the plagues on the earth right now.

[@richardmok4474]

Why is it that everyone thinks native Americans were entitled to this land? All animals on this planet migrate and take over other lands. Native Americans were slaughtering each other for these lands long before white men came along. Lakota just happened to be the last tribe to conquer and inhabit this land before the settlers came. And one day, maybe someone will come and take it from them. And maybe one day, beings from another planet will come and take it from mankind. The government overreach in this country already has them taking land from landowners, sometimes by force. You never know when this land will belong to someone else, but it will always be temporary.

[@codygeewin5166]

Indians are from INDIA...!!! It's NATIVE PEOPLE...!!! NATIVE INDEPENDENCE....!!!

[@user-vc9im2tq5p]

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[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

The information about the Badlands taking millions of years to form is pretty debunked when the rangers tell us the badlands lose about an inch a year in erosion. Ok, so let's look at a few million inches... doesn't really make sense, does it. Of course not. Beautiful country but not millions of years old...

[@NuggetPlays]

Give me concrete evidence.

[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

what kind of concrete evidence do you want. The rangers keep track of their erosion - and if it is what they say it is, then when they say it took millions of years to get to where it is now, that is a million inches above what it is now. That is just a simple conclusion to what they say.

[@enforcerjj2943]

+Ed Shawn, Give me CONCRETE evidence!! YOU are incredibly stupid and have been programmed by propaganda. NONE of what you say is PROOF. It's a CONCLUSION based on the very same evidence we ALL have. There are more than one way to explain and look at things. ALL EVIDENCE has to be INTERPRETED based on ASSUMPTIONS. All these things are explained just as simply and precisely by OTHER theories, which is all YOUR view is as well - a THEORY, no such thing as CONCRETE EVIDENCE. Everything you say is PURE SPECULATION!!!! Ask them how they know the age of the rocks and they will say by the layers they are found in. Ask how they know the age of the layers and they will say it's by the types of rocks found in the layers, as they have laid out their presuppositional THEORIES and everything else is determined by that pre-supposed paradigm.

[@pmiller7148]

Hmb MusicClass you truly are stupid

[@richardmok4474]

Millions of years to form..... sediment washing in from far away lands. Building up over millions of years. Burying animals that would later become fossils. Climate changing. Rivers carving through the sediments that built up over millions of years, causing canyons. Rivers drying up. Rain eroding what’s left of the sediments. Nobody said there’s been millions of years of erosion. You’re looking at it all wrong.