National Parks in South Dakota

Explore 2 national parks in the South Dakota region

Midwest

Badlands National Park

South Dakota

Badlands' dramatic landscape of eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires reveals millions of years of fossil-rich deposits in a striking, otherworldly terrain.

242,756 acres 1,006,809 visitors/yr
Midwest

Wind Cave National Park

South Dakota

Wind Cave contains the world's largest concentration of rare boxwork formations, while the surface protects one of the largest remaining mixed-grass prairies.

33,851 acres 709,001 visitors/yr

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