We continued our drive along the southern edge of the Badlands Wall into an area known as the Pinnacles where we passed a lone coyote, the official state animal of South Dakota (since 1949): Just beyond the Pinnacles, the road heads due north across the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands where we immediately came upon a … Continue reading
The scenic drive through Badlands National Park is called the “Badlands Loop Road,” although it doesn’t make a loop, unless you consider it to start and end in the little town of Wall and to include the 21 mile drive from there on I-90 to get to the Park’s Northeast Entrance. Arriving at the Northeast … Continue reading
The northern edge of the Black Hills of South Dakota lies almost exactly 200 miles due south of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt NP, an easy drive on US85 from Medora. It’s relatively mundane scenery, looking across rolling prairie, until you are within sight of the Black Hills, about the same time as US85 … Continue reading
The Road Less Traveled 