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Badlands National Park is a short drive from The Black Hills.
When coming from the Black Hills, The Traveling Morgans recommend you approach from the south (SD Highway 44) so you can see "the wall" that gave Wall SD its name. Coming in the Cedar Pass Entrance, you will find yourself face to face with "The Wall" and the road climbing up Cedar Pass.
A good Badlands Map is provided by BlackHillsBadlands.Com.
Cedar Pass as seen from the visitor center near the town of Interior. This pass is one of the few ways down from and through "the wall" of the badlands.
Cedar Pass a closer view. Not far from the pass is the Door Nature Trail and Window Nature Trail.
As you climb near the top of Cedar Pass, you will find the Cliff Shelf Trail.
Cliff Shelf Nature Trail, part way up Cedar Pass.
Trail goes down a pretty fair distance
Steep cliffs short ways ahead.
Cliffs are quite steep. The Badlands are soft and the cliffs are not safe to climb.
Near the Northeast Entrance is Big Badlands Overlook. Not far from the old Minuteman Missile Silo
For many this is their first impression of the Badlands as they come in the Norteast entrance.
A farewell to a the amazing Badlands if you leave by the Northeast Entrance.