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Saturday, December 4, 2021

Bighorn Sheep - Badlands National Park

While once numbering about two million, only about 20,000 bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) remained in the US in 1940. After much work by conservationists, today there are about 80,000. A small herd of twenty-two bighorn sheep was re-introduced to the badlands in 1964. Forty years later another group was translocated to the park. Today, a herd of about 250 bighorn sheep resides in Badlands National Park.

We saw a few of them near Badlands Loop Road during our May 2021 visit to the park. 







A Badlands National Park entry fee of $30 per vehicle, $25 per motorcycle, or $15 per person is valid for seven consecutive days. Other fee payment options include the America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands passes including the Annual Pass ($80), Senior Pass ($80 for a lifetime), Access Pass (free with a documented disability), and Military Annual Pass (free for active-duty personnel). Also available is a Badlands Annual Pass for $55. 

The Badlands National Park website is https://www.nps.gov/badl/index.htm.

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