Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 ...

Have you ever been to the Badlands? We're not talking about the renowned national park in the southwest portion of South Dakota. Instead, our scope is aimed 420 miles nearly due south, in Northern ...

A "Homecooking" sign, perched on the side of a gravel road in southwestern South Dakota, stops me. It leads to a brown sheet-metal building, the Cuny Table Café—two booths and one round table ...

, but it's also the first in the world. Encompassing parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, this park is renowned for its geothermal features, including the iconic Old Faithful geyser. It's a ...

Fracking adjacent to Theodore Roosevelt National Park is changing the landscape. And a whole lot more. When Theodore Roosevelt first visited the Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison, he saw wild, ...

Located on the Great Plains and home to Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore, Wind Cave National Park, and nine Native American tribes, South Dakota attracts visitors who are thrilled by the ...

The Midwest has some of the country's most scenic campsites, from the windswept landscapes of the Dakotas to the Northwoods shorelines of Minnesota. A recently released list from the online travel ...