Badlands Travel Brochure
By Sakina Ghafoor
About the Badlands
For 11,000 years the Native Americans used the badlands as sacred hunting grounds. But in the 19th century homesteaders moved to South Dakota. More and more started to come and they would take up the hunting grounds. Then in June of 1993 a huge backbone of a dinosaur was found protruding from the ground near a picnic area. Once too many people moved in they started to kill the Native Americans in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
A view of the Badlands
Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills
There are many activities in the Badlands for everyone
Activities
Door Trail
Window Trail
Notch Trail
Castle Trail
Cliff Shelf
Fossil Exhibit Trail
You can also become a junior ranger by completing and turning the Junior Ranger activity books
There are also Astronomy Programs-
2015 Badlands Astronomy Festival
Night Sky Observing
There are lots of more activities that you can join in on at http://www.nps.gov/index.htm