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 ...

Nowhere on Earth is as rich in quantity and quality of the prehistoric creatures' remains as the Badlands' arid Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where digs are still under way.

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.

The park also features fossils ... grasslands and Painted Desert vistas and colorful badlands. This is my Mother's park story. Here she is at age 90 having just visited Petrified Forest NP. Mother ...