Our last day in South Dakota took us on a hike into a section of Badlands National Park. If you haven’t gone, you need to go. The combination of terrain is amazing and varied. It is both desolate and filled with life at the same time. Not quite desert and not quite prairie. It was the perfect capper for our trip.
The crazy thing I discovered about the Badlands was that these formations are all over the place. They look like mountains in the distance, but really they aren’t that far off.
I am less afraid of running into bears than I am of rattlesnakes. I am so glad it was a cool day, but this sign greeted us at one point before we entered the tall grass.
It just seemed endless in a way mountain and forest hiking just doesn’t.
