When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, he was a skinny, young, spectacled dude from New York. He could not have imagined how his adventure in this remote and unfamiliar place would forever alter the course of the nation. The rugged landscape and strenuous life that TR experienced here would help shape a conservation policy that we still benefit from today.
What you’ll hear
82 places to explore in this park.
- A Business Proposal
- Active Slump
- A Growing Ranch
- A Home on the Little Missouri
- Audio Tour Conclusion
- Badlands Overlook
- Badlands Slopes
- Badlands Spur Trail
- Beef Corral Bottom
- Bentonite
- Bentonitic Clay Overlook
- Bighorn Sheep
- Boicourt Overlook
- Boicourt Trail
- Buck Hill
- Buckhorn Trailhead
- Building the Elkhorn
- Cannonball Concretions
- Caprock Coulee Trailhead
- Chokecherry
- Coal Vein Trailhead
- Coal Vein Trail Post 10: Seasonal Stream
- Coal Vein Trail Post 11: Ignition
- Coal Vein Trail Post 12: Clinker Overlook
- Coal Vein Trail Post 13: Slumping
- Coal Vein Trail Post 14: Grassland
- Coal Vein Trail Post 15: The Big Picture
- Coal Vein Trail Post 16: Chimney
- Coal Vein Trail Post 1: Layers
- Coal Vein Trail Post 2: Collapse
- Coal Vein Trail Post 3: Bentonite
- Coal Vein Trail Post 4: Caprocks
- Coal Vein Trail Post 5: Dry Climate
- Coal Vein Trail Post 6: Seasonal Pool
- Coal Vein Trail Post 7: Burn Out
- Coal Vein Trail Post 8: Hills Overlook
- Coal Vein Trail Post 9: Clinker
- Coal Vein Trail Turn
- Coulees
- Differential Erosion
- Elkhorn Ranch Cabin Site
- Elkhorn Ranch Trailhead
- Forest Litter
- Grasses
- Green Ash
- Johnson's Plateau Roadside Pulloff
- Lichens
- Life at the Elkhorn
- Lignite
- Maltese Cross Cabin
- Medora Overlook
- North-facing Slopes
- Old East Entrance
- Oxbow Overlook
- Painted Canyon Nature Trail
- Painted Canyon Overlook
- Painted Canyon Trail
- Peaceful Valley Ranch
- Petrified Forest - North
- Petrified Forest - South
- Petrified Wood
- Piping
- Prairie Dog Colony Pulloff
- Prairie Ecosystems
- Prairie Grasslands
- Prickly Pear Cactus
- Rabbitbrush
- Ridgeline Nature Trail
- River Bend Overlook
- Rivulet Erosion
- Roosevelts Returns to the Badlands
- Sagebrush
- Scoria Point Overlook
- Skyline Vista
- Slump Formations
- Talkington Trail Roadside Pulloff
- The Long X Trail
- Trail's End
- Turn to Buck Hill
- Upper Jones Creek Trailhead
- Wildlife Tracks
- Wind Canyon
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