The Ben Reifel Visitor Center in Badlands National Park is located at mile 4.8 on South Dakota Route 240. This is 8.2 miles south of exit 131 on Interstate 90 or 30 miles southeast of exit 110 on I-90 in Wall.
The visitor center contains the usual information desk, exhibit hall, theater, bookstore, and restrooms. Another excellent National Park Service film,
Land of Stone and Light, is narrated by Melissa Leebaert. The orientation film is approximately 20 minutes in length and is shown every half hour.
We visited in August 2017.
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| View from the parking area |
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| Another view from the parking area |
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| Ben Reifel Visitor Center |
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| Passport to the National Parks |
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| Bookstore |
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| Information Desk |
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| Theater |
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| Park map |
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| Geology exhibit |
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| Fossils in the layers of rock |
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| Prehistoric climate change |
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"Never before did I see anything that so resembled a large city;
so complete was this deception that I could point out
the public buildings." - Thaddeus Culbertson, 1850 |
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| Native and invasive species |
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| Fire rejuvenates the prairie |
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| Wildlife restoration |
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| "Life in a Hard Place" |
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| Lakota Winter Count |
An entrance fee of $20 admits all the passengers of a single vehicle for seven consecutive days to Badlands National Park. A fee of $10 applies to motorcyclists. Other entrance fee options include a Badlands National Park Annual Pass for $40, an Every Kid in a Park 4th Grade Pass for free, and a variety of America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes providing access to most national park, national forest, and BLM fee areas
- Annual Pass for $80
- Military Pass for free
- Lifetime Senior Pass for $80 or $20 annually for those age 62 and older
- Access Pass for free for visitors with a permanent disability
The park website is
https://www.nps.gov/badl.
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