There’s a peculiar magic that happens when you’re cruising through the vast openness of South Dakota, your gas gauge dipping ...

In a world obsessed with bigger, faster, and louder, there exists a refreshing counterpoint tucked away in the western South Dakota landscape. Hermosa stands as a testament to the idea that sometimes, ...

Kristen Kilcoin has experienced the good and the bad of the nearly three-year project to rebuild and widen a long stretch of ...

Visiting a national park often involves scanning the horizon for charismatic animals. And most visitors arrive with a mental ...

Theodore Roosevelt first traveled to the Badlands on a hunting trip in 1883. He was so taken by the otherworldly landscape of pastel buttes, trilling meadowlarks, and disappearing bison, that he ...

A trip to the Badlands with my 8-year old offered lessons in boyhood — and manhood. Badlands National Park in South Dakota.Credit...Gregory Halpern/Magnum, for The New York Times Supported by By Sam ...

In a place like Badlands National Park, you don't find a lot of lengthy South Dakota hiking trails. There's a good reason for that. In a spot as desolate (yet still stunningly beautiful) as the ...

An investigation is underway after five people died in a fiery car crash near a popular beauty spot in South Dakota. The fatal collision happened Wednesday around 12am in Sioux Falls, about 15 minutes ...

Glide above the otherworldly landscape of Badlands National Park, with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the dramatic, sculpted terrain of spires, pinnacles, and buttes that rise abruptly from ...

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. — The 13th annual Badlands Astronomy Festival drew hundreds of space science professionals, amateur astronomers, and curious visitors to the area this weekend for a ...

PIEDMONT, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - John Carley joined about 100 other business operators in early May for a meeting of the Black Hills & Badlands Tourism Association to preview the 2025 tourism season ...