Badlands National Park

Our day started with two unexpected stops. The Wall Drug Store had been advertising on the highway since Jackson, WY so I had to stop and see what all the fuss was about. It was actually a fun place. Then we missed the road to the Badlands so we had to turn around and there was Delta 9 MinuteMan Missile Silo historic site. They had a great telephone (call) audio tour. 

Finally we got to The Badlands National Park. It is so unique with its Pinnacles and canyons of rock. The fossil lab at the visitor center was amazing. They had so many prehistoric fossils of weird animals. Not dinosaurs because South Dakota was a tropical sea during dinosaurs times. And we finally got to see big horn sheep. 

On our way out of the Badlands we saw a sod house Museum:Prairie Homestead. It was also great. It was an original sod house from 1911, they had a great film,  podcast, and signage sharing the story of the Homesteaders, the brown family, who lived there. 

Wildlife:
2 herds Big Horn Sheep (finally)
100s of Prairie Dogs
1 turtle 

2 roadkill 

Gree’s senior park pass savings to date $510.50