Badlands National Park is 'nature's surreal masterpiece'
The National Park Foundation calls Badlands National Park nature's surreal masterpiece.
The South Dakota park's captivating plateaus and pinnacles, which began to erode about 500,000 years ago, draw visitors from around the world.
President Theodore Roosevelt once said the Badlands “are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this Earth.”
It was officially established as a national park in 1978.
Researchers believe the park’s distinctive geological formations will erode away completely within 500,000 years, according to reports.
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