Badlands National Park

Badlands Wall climbs, prairie loops, fossil displays, and eroded formations.

Sage Creek Wilderness Route

Plan Sage Creek Wilderness Route in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Deer Haven Trail in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Conata Basin Overlook Walk in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Hay Butte Overlook Route in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Old Northeast Road Walk in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Sage Creek Rim Trail in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Big Badlands Overlook Walk in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Burns Basin Overlook Walk in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Prairie Wind Overlook Trail in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

Plan Sheep Mountain Table Walk in Badlands with trailhead checks, route character, hazards, pacing, and return-trip decisions.

A rugged badlands route using a log ladder to reach an overlook above the White River Valley.

A boardwalk followed by marked travel into a maze of eroded badlands formations.

The park’s longest maintained trail crosses mixed-grass prairie beneath extensive badlands formations.

A short, aggressive climb up the Badlands Wall to connections with Castle and Medicine Root trails.

A loop of boardwalk, stairs, and natural trail through a juniper pocket below the Badlands Wall.

A short boardwalk to a natural opening in the Badlands Wall overlooking an eroded canyon.

An accessible boardwalk with fossil replicas and displays explaining extinct animals once found in the Badlands.

A prairie loop with distant views of the Badlands formations and a quieter open-country experience.

A longer combination route pairing Badlands formations along Castle Trail with open mixed-grass prairie on Medicine Root.

A compact sampler linking two easy boardwalk overlooks with the ladder and ledge experience of Notch Trail.