Make sure to pick up a park map from an entry booth ... Rapid City: The nearest metropolitan area and the most convenient airport to Badlands and the Black Hills has numerous restaurants, breweries ...

The Ben Reifel Visitor Center is at the North Unit of the park and gives out maps ... Wilderness Area. Several family-friendly hikes originate near the Ben Reifel Visitor Center. Badlands National ...

Or maybe it's the fact that people have been calling it, you know, the Badlands for hundreds of years. (Even Lakota tribes and early French trappers ended up dubbing the area with the same moniker.) ...