While South Dakota and Utah's badlands might be better known, New Mexico's colorful rock formations and remote badland wilderness is worth a visit.

Badlands National Park is full of geological oddities ... Plan your hike near sunrise or sunset for the best color and light for pictures.

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 ...

The park consists of two main sections ... the major concentrations of the famous colorful petrified wood; in the north rise the colorful banded badlands of the Painted Desert.