![]() ![]() You can hit everything in seven days, do a whirlwind weekend tour, or you can take your time and explore the area over a 2+ week period. In each location, we provide a suggested route and itinerary (7 stops in each guide, one for each day of a week trip!) as well as links to multiple campgrounds and boondocking spots, local tips, and interesting things to do at each location. We’ve written a library of RV Travel books that lay out guided RV explorations of scenic areas of the US that we’’ve explored and think would make an excellent RV trip for you. Looking for exciting RV trip ideas and travel suggestions? Here is a video we did on some of the fun things to see there. You’ll see lots of prairie dogs when camping in the Badlands Extra things to see on your way to Camping in the BadlandsīONUS #1: To get to the Badlands, you’ll most likely be on I-90. Eventually, the Badlands will completely erode away. After the sea retreated, successive land environments, including rivers and flood plains, continued to deposit sediments.Īlthough the major period of deposition ended 28 million years ago, significant erosion of the Badlands did not begin until a mere half a million years ago.Įrosion continues to carve the Badlands buttes today. The Badlands were formed by the geologic processes of deposition and erosion.ĭeposition of sediments began 69 million years ago when an ancient sea stretched across what is now the Great Plains. On the downside, you need to be snake aware out here. You will see bison, bighorn sheep, and prairie dogs throughout the park, sometimes far off, sometimes surprisingly close. There is a rugged beauty about the place like none other we have seen anywhere in North America. The Badlands National Park protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. You could say we’ve gotten hooked on the Badlands. Jennifer and I try to spend time here each year. While the Badlands may be an inhospitable place to live, these days the Badlands make for a very good visit by RV. Camping in the Badlands is an amazing experience ![]() They are dry, unbearably hot in the summer, rugged, isolated and – in the days before modern transportation – extremely difficult to navigate. It’s easy to see why American Indians and the early settlers called the area of southwestern South Dakota the Badlands. 8 Looking for exciting RV trip ideas and travel suggestions?.7.1 Extra things to see on your way to Camping in the Badlands. ![]()
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