• Badlands National Park
  Located in southwestern South Dakota, Badlands National Park consists of nearly 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. The Badlands Wilderness Area is made up of 64,000 acres and is the site of the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America.
  
  
• Jewel Cave National Monument
  With more than 121 miles surveyed, Jewel Cave is recognized as the third longest cave in the world. Airflow within its passages indicates a vast area yet to be explored. Cave tours provide opportunities for viewing this pristine cave system and its wide variety of speleothems including stalactites, stalagmites, draperies, frostwork, flowstone, boxwork and hydromagnesite balloons. Located in southwestern South Dakota (in the southern Black Hills).
  
  
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial
  Mount Rushmore is a memorial to the birth, growth, preservation and development of the United States of America. Between 1927 and 1941, Gutzon Borglum sculpted busts of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln high in the Black Hills to represent the first 150 years of American history. Located at Keystone, South Dakota.
  
  
• South Dakota State Parks
  General information catering to all interests in natural resources and state parks. Find park descriptions, policies and regulations.
  
  
• Wind Cave National Park
  One of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features of the park. The cave is well known for its outstanding display of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs. The park's mixed grass prairie is one of the few remaining and is home to native wildlife such as bison, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes, and prairie dogs. Located Seven miles north of Hot Springs, South Dakota.
  
  

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