Today we traveled to the Badlands and spent the day seeing nature at its best. The changing landscape with the bands of color were amazing. It was hard to imagine this beautiful barren land was once had a subtropical climate that contained alligators and other prehistoric animals.
As we continued our trip along the scenic highway through the Badlands National Park, we ran across prairie dog town. The prairie dogs habitated several of the mounds found all over the meadows. For a better view click the photo to the right.
We also were lucky enough to see several big horn sheep along the road.
As we finished our journey we continued to see the banded geographic formations.
The park had elevated walkways that lead to fossil displays of fossils that had been found in the park.
Being an inquisitive group of four we climbed several rock outcroppings. The views were breathtaking!