Destinations · South Dakota
Badlands National Park
SD · 43.7500, -102.5000
From Badlands National Park, South Dakota, Byway's registries place 1 scenic byway, 1 national park, 2 public land units and 4 campgrounds within 30 miles.
Understand
The park is divided into two sections (on either side of State Route 44, which cuts through at the park's narrowest point): The North Unit, the most popular area with most of the easily-accessible attractions. The South Unit (also known as the Stronghold District), a largely-roadless backcountry on the Pine Ridge Reservation co-managed with the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Badlands Loop Scenic Byway · 16 mi
National parks
- Badlands National Park · inside
Public land
- Buffalo Gap National Grassland · 1 mi
- Nebraska National Forest · 1 mi
Campgrounds
- Sage Creek Campground · 11 mi
- Railroad Buttes OHV Area · 21 mi
- Cedar Pass Campground · 27 mi
- French Creek Camping Area · 27 mi
Lookouts
- Hay Butte Overlook · 15 mi
- Pinnacles Overlook · 16 mi
- Ancient Hunters Overlook · 16 mi
- Yellow Mounds Overlook · 17 mi
Named places
- Heck Table · 1 mi
- Sheep Mountain Table · 5 mi
- Cedar Butte · 7 mi
- Seventyone Table · 7 mi
- Hart Table · 8 mi
- Kube Table · 9 mi
- Hutmacher Table · 9 mi
- Quinn Table · 11 mi
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