DAY 30d
Week 5
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK (South Dakota, USA)
Thursday July 20th, 2006
TODAYS MILEAGE – 198 miles or 319 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 3393 miles or 5461 kilometres
The Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres (98,240 ha) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The park is co-managed by the National Park Service and the Oglala Lakota indians.
Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. It was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978.
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