Badlands and Black Hills: How to Drive South Dakota Properly The Badlands and the Black Hills are two of the American West’s great spectacles — and they sit barely 60 miles apart. Done well, a week linking the two feels effortless: dramatic scenery,…
Some road trips are about diners and viewpoints. This one is about the shape of a herd in morning light, a pronghorn flashing across sage, and the small jolt of spotting wild horses on a distant ridge. If you’re planning a wildlife-watching road trip…
South Dakota looks simple on a map, then the road starts to fold into prairies, rock walls and pine-covered hills. For a first visit, the trick is pacing. Try to do it all in one hotel base and you’ll spend too much of the…
