Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

Features at Badlands National Park

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a shattered fossil skull of a large animal called brontothere

Badlands Gunnery Range

878 x 1174
3.1 MB

a yellow sign in from of a rolling brown prairie reads: "caution former bombing range"

Badlands Gunnery Range

483 x 400
0.0 MB

Two photos showing the same landscape: one is black and white with a road and tunnel going through some badlands formations, the second photo is color and has a paved road going over a small hill

Badlands Tunnels

680 x 560
0.1 MB

A group of roughly 30 people on horseback descend a banded, reddish badlands butte.

Bigfoot Pass

848 x 1277
2.2 MB

Two informational signs in front of prairie grasses and buttes

The Big Pig Dig

851 x 1274
2.4 MB

Three paleontologists sitting and working in a pit in the ground where they are using tools to excavate fossils, each marked by blue tape

The Big Pig Dig

933 x 1241
3.0 MB

Colorful badlands layers ranging from a small drainage and dark rocks to green, yellow, red, and gray layers all under a blue sky

Complete Geologic Section

2990 x 4485
2.8 MB

Two concrete survey markers exposed above the earth demonstrating how erosion has changed the earth. All under a blue sky and vast badlands on the horizon

Dillon Pass Survey Marker

2304 x 3456
5.2 MB

Colorful badlands layers ranging from a small drainage and dark rocks to green, yellow, red, and gray layers all under a blue sky. Outlines of different layers have text that reads (from bottom to top) Yellow Mounds, Interior Paleosol, Chadron Formation, Brule Formation, Sharps Formation.

Complete Geologic Section

965 x 646
0.1 MB

Colorful badlands layers ranging from a small drainage and dark rocks to green, yellow, red, and gray layers all under a blue sky. Outlines of different layers have text that reads (from bottom to top) Yellow Mounds/Fox Hills Formation, Interior Paleosol/Chamberlain Pass Formation, Chadron Formation, Brule Formation, Sharps Formation.

Complete Geologic Section

641 x 960
0.2 MB

Top view of vast badlands landscape showing deep ravines, craggy nooks, and grassy plateaus

Palmer Creek

1840 x 3264
1.1 MB

Concrete marker exposed several feet above the earth, showing the amount of erosion that has happened since installation

Dillon Pass Survey Marker

2304 x 3456
6.0 MB

Concrete marker exposed several inches above earth

Dillon Pass Survey Marker

2592 x 3888
2.4 MB

Green mixed grass prairie amid badlands formations under bright blue sky

Palmer Creek

3456 x 4608
5.6 MB

Panorama showing deep canyons, rolling hills, flat prairie, and badlands

Palmer Creek

1080 x 4912
2.0 MB

Black rock bands along drainage with cotton trees and prairie grasses

Pierre Shale Outcrop

2304 x 3456
3.8 MB

Black rock bands along quiet creek with prairie grasses

Pierre Shale Outcrop

3456 x 5184
6.8 MB

Prairie landscape with small mounds of earth with an abundance of prairie dogs

Quinn Prairie Dog Town

2304 x 3456
4.7 MB

Prairie landscape with mounds of earth and prairie dogs, sign in the foreground reads "Roberts Prairie Dog Town"

Roberts Prairie Dog Town

2304 x 3456
3.6 MB

Prairie landscape with earthen mounds, numerous prairie dogs, and a single coyote

Roberts Prairie Dog Town

3456 x 5184
6.0 MB

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