Located in southwestern South Dakota, Badlands National Park consists of 244, 000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States.
One of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28, 295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features of the park.
The Fort Meade Recreation Area is composed of approximately 6, 700 acres of forest and grasslands. The area is managed to protect, preserve, and enhance its cultural, historic, recreational, and wildlife values.
One of six large lakes on the Missouri River. Area contains numerous village sites of early Indian culture. Recreation opportunities include camping, swimming, boating, fishing, and hunting outside of recreation areas.
Situated on the Missouri River with numerous tributary streams and their embayments which afford protected boating and fishing sites.
This Missouri River lake provides a tree-covered shoreline characterized by picturesque chalky bluffs in the lower segment and a beautiful view of the Missouri Valley in the upper reach.
Oahe Dam, SD takes its name from the Oahe Indian Mission established among the Lakota Sioux Indians in 1874.