Welcome back to National Parks and other public lands with T!
The Land of Stone and Light►
Badlands National Park is known for its eroded rock formations and protects the largest remaining grassland prairies in the United States. Native Americans used the Badlands as their hunting grounds. The Lakota, because of the extreme temperatures and rough terrain, called it ‘makho sica’ which translates the ‘land bad.’
The Land of Stone and Light is the 22-minute video shown in the visitor center. We didn’t have time to watch it when we visited the park. Fortunately, it we can now view it on You Tube:
Rapid City area posts►
- Badlands National Park
- Mount Rushmore
- Crazy Horse
- Custer State Park
- Land of Stone and Light
Location: 25216 SD-240, Interior, SD 57750
Designation: National Reserve, State Park, NRHP
Date designated or established: 1/29/1939
Date of my visit: 1/31/2016
We loved the scenery and the wildlife in Badlands and watched the video in the Visitors’ Center. Badlands was a much more impressive Park than Teddy Roosevelt which we saw the day before.
I haven’t been to TR. That must have been a long drive between parks?
Amazing!!! I went to the Badlands once when I was a kid – would LOVE to go back
I would love to go back too!
Just curious–who did the paintings that are shown in your post? They are lovely. (I haven’t yet seen the video, my apologies it it’s mentioned there.)
Thanks! Those are my photos converted into paintings with a program called Topaz
Well done–they are gorgeous!
Thanks!
Some of my favorite places! Beautiful!
Thanks!!
You’re welcome!
Pretty photos/paintings. I enjoyed the video, thanks.
Thanks!