Thursday, June 22nd, 2023

Stating mileage: 4465, distance travelled: 83

What an amazing day exploring the Badlands!

In the morning we went to a prairie dog field. SO CUTE!

After that we went on a hike in the Badlands. The trail was called notch trail. We had to climb up (and more excitingly, DOWN) a big ladder. There were cool, mud bird nests in the building eaves and awesome cacti all over the place.

Then we stopped at a picnic area to eat lunch and started to drive to another hiking trail by the far Sage Creek Campground. We got stopped on the way there by a buffalo crossing!

On the hike, we crossed prairie, a dry creek bed with cool quicksand-like mud, Buffalo dung, and massive amounts of grasshoppers.