Day Hiking Trails: Video of Badlands National Park scenery

Friday, April 3, 2015

Video of Badlands National Park scenery

Among the iconic sites of South Dakota’s Black Hills region is the Badlands, a bizarre menagerie of spires and domes encased by striped, twisting canyon walls.

The rock making up the Badlands formation were deposited from 75 million to 34 million years ago; they only started to erode away about half a million years ago. Because of this erosion, the Badlands is a treasure trove of fossils – reptile sea monsters, rhinoceroses, camels, three-toed horses, clams, ammonites and more.

Here’s a brief video showing the Badlands:

A couple of great day hiking trails to experience the Badlands include:
g Door Trail
g Notch Trail

Learn more about national park day hiking trails in my Best Sights to See at America’s National Parks guidebook.

Meet the Author

My name is Rob Bignell. I'm a long-time hiker, journalist and editor. My son Kieran and I have been hiking together for the past decade. Before Kieran, I taught middle school students in New Mexico and Wisconsin, served as an infantryman in the Army National Guard, and worked in newspapers. I've won several journalism awards, from editorial writing to sports reporting. In 2001, The Prescott Journal, which I served as managing editor of, was named Wisconsin’s Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Currently I own and operate an online editing business, Inventing Reality Editing Service. After spending several years in Southern California, my son and I now live in Wisconsin on the scenic Red Cedar River.