Homestead Overlook - Badlands National Park, SD
N 43° 49.312 W 102° 10.544
13T E 727113 N 4855966
The view from the Homestead Overlook is to the southeast from the upper level of Badlands National Park toward the farmland on the plains below.
Waymark Code: WMRP92
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 07/16/2016
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Homesteaders came to theh Badlands when the Milwaukee completed track through the White River Valley in 1907. Hometeads made acheckerboard of the land with settlers living in tarpaper shacks, tents and sod houses. Most of the homesteads turned into "Starvation Claims" and were abandoned or sold.