Badlands National Park - White River Visitor Center, SD
Posted by: paulspaper
N 43° 30.687 W 102° 29.790
13T E 702358 N 4820657
White River Visitor Center near the south unit of the park.
Waymark Code: WMRVDZ
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 08/07/2016
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This Badlands National Park visitor center is south and west of the main unit of the park. It is located near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.
The South Unit, or Stronghold Unit, is co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe and includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table, the park's highest point at 3,340 feet (1,020 m).
Address: PO Box 6 Interior, SD United States 57750
NPS Web Page for this Station: [Web Link]
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