Badlands National Park - U.S. National Parks Edition
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At the White River Badlands, natural processes have uncovered and displayed a concentrated collection of rutted ravines, serrated towers, pinnacles, and precipitous gulches. The park also contains world renowned paleontological features.
Waymark Code: WM2P50
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 11/29/2007
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The Badlands National Park was created to preserve the scenic and scientific value of a portion of the White River Badlands. Here natural processes have uncovered and displayed a concentrated collection of rutted ravines, serrated towers, pinnacles, and gulches. The park contains world renowned paleontological features and geological formations of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs with recognized scientific and educational value. This spectacular setting contains is also a fine example of a vast mixed-grass prairie ecosystem. The landscape encompasses an 11,000 year legacy of human use and occupancy. The evolution of mammal species such as the horse, sheep, rhinoceros and pig can be studied in the Badlands formations.
Established as Badlands National Monument in 1939, the area was redesignated as a National Park in 1978.
The coordinates given are for the Ben Reifel Visitor Center at the east edge of the park where most folks start their visit.
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