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

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 ...