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Badlands National Park

9/6/1992 Continued drive through Rapid to Badlands National Park - magnificent craggy peaks and mounds, multicolored layers, etc.

A wide shot of the badlands

Hello ...

The Shadow

Just a little dry

10/3/2019 ... then into Badlands NP. This was the best part of the day, taking us back to our roots of big park travel. We headed a little bit down a side road for some wildlife viewing. We saw what looked like Pronghorn Sheep, then some Bison right on the side of the road - great for viewing and photography, but not looking very natural as they were scratching themselves on fence posts and poles. Back onto the main park road we checked out the spectacular scenery on a perfect day. We pulled into most view areas, and at many we got out and took a gazillion photos of the rugged sculpted features and multicolored eroded volcanic deposits. Near the east end of the park we took a short boardwalk trail which ended in an area where we could walk out onto the rough terrain, climbing up and down on the coarse rough surface.

The park sign

A couple of ...

... park residents

Pinnacles Overlook

A niced panorama ...

... and close-up

Me and a spectacular view

Yellow Mounds Overlook panorama

Cool colors

Ken and me

Burns Basin Overlook

Rugged landscape

The Basin along the park road

Ken and me again

Ken on The Door trail

Cool sculpture

One last view of the park and me

Wind Cave National Park

9/6/1992 Drove to Wind Cave National Park (saw bison on the way!), took early tour of caves - very interesting, although not very colorful.

Me at the park sign ...

... and heading down