PHOTOS: South Dakota's beautiful Badlands
Saturday was the second National Park Service fee-free day of 2023, and despite the cold weather, plenty of visitors turned out to admire the park's incredible landscape.
A colorful, mounded valley runs along part of the highway at Badlands National Park.
Visitors take a selfie at the Pinnacles Overlook at Badlands National Park on Saturday. April 22 was Earth Day and the beginning of National Park Week across the United States. NPS celebrated by declaring Saturday a "fee-free" day, one of five every year. The next fee-free days are August 4, Sept. 23 and Nov. 11.
A family walks through the alien landscape along the Door Trail in Badlands National Park.
Visitors stand at an overlook in Badlands National Park Saturday, April 22.
Members of a Camaro club enjoyed a drive through Badlands National Park Saturday, April 22.
Visitors check out exhibits at the Ben Reifel Visitors Center in Badlands National Park.
The Ben Reifel Visitors Center features in-depth exhibits, including a look at the different layers that make up the park's stunning alien-like landscape.
The Ben Reifel Visitors Center features a fossil prep lab, where visitors can look at fossils collected in the park and watch scientists prepare them.
Young boys climb along the pinnacled landscape at Badlands National Park Saturday, April 22.
A group of bighorn sheep rest along a hillside at Badlands National Park.
Despite the wind and cold, Badlands National Park had plenty of visitors for the second fee-free day of 2023.
Visitors admire Badlands National Park from the Pinnacles Overlook Saturday, April 22.
The layered, alien-like landscape of Badlands National Park stretches to the skyline at the Pinnacles Overlook.
Pronghorn graze on a hilltop at Badlands National Park.
Badlands National Park
Darsha Dodge
City Editor, Staff Photographer
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