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Published: September 13th 2017
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Badlands National ParkIts only a short 70 mile drive from the Black Hills to the Badlands. We set up camp in the town of Wall, South Dakota, famous as the home of Wall Drug. Its a large gift shop/ diner/ tourist trap that started long ago as a simple drug store offering free ice water to travelers. It is advertised repeatedly on billboards along I-90. We did go through the place, very busy, but we did get our free ice water.
In the afternoon we went into the national park. It was 98 degrees, but cooled off a little after a rain shower. I like the Badlands. The geologic features are amazing plus plenty of wildlife on the grasslands, and being adjacent to large reservations it has strong cultural ties to the Native Americans.
We saw plenty of wildlife, the usual suspects. We watched two coyotes that kept hanging around the periphery of a herd of pronghorns until the pronghorns finally had enough and moved on. We saw some bighorn sheep, including a real nice ram. Plus thousands of prairie dogs and some bison.
We stopped at the visitor center and had some more Indian tacos, then headed back to the camper for
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Badlands National Park the night.
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