Eroded buttes of the Badlands
Just the two of us
We managed to get a pretty good spot with a view!
Sunset over the plains
Pink light and pink rock
The winding park road
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
The Badlands
The Badlands was the first stop on the final leg of our journey. The trip from Minnesota through South Dakota was one of the longer drives of the trip, and we made it to the Badlands by evening. The landscape in this park is alien and strange; after driving for endless miles through flat farmland, the Bandlands rise out of the horizon and dazzle you with bands of colored, rippling rock formations. The eroded buttes and pinnacles are punctuated with prairie grassland, which makes for a stark contrast. It can also be blisteringly hot in the summertime, and even though the sun was quite low, the temperature was still hovering around 100 degrees when we arrived in the evening. We pitched our tent and then went out to explore a little. We were only staying in the park for one night before moving on to Custer State Park, so we made the most of the light we had left.
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