The American West Part 9: The Badlands National Park

This remarkable and strange landscape is effectively a multi-layered escarpment undergoing erosion and causing it to recede north and northwestwards. The layers of sand, silt, ash, mud and gravel have been slowly eaten away and carved into pinnacles, precipices, pyramids, knobs, cones, ridges and gorges.

In places the prairie is pock marked with the holes of the prairie dog where they congregate into township like communities.