Badlands National Park, SD

We started out our day in South Dakota by taking a tour of Jewel Cave National Monument. It is the 4th largest dry cave in the United States. Unfortunately most of our pictures taken inside the cave turned out looking like your everyday rock, except this one.... (They turned all the lights off at one point so you can experience complete darkness - this is what Nathan looked like when they turned the lights back on.)

We then made a pit stop at Mount Rushmore! There were a ton of people and we were going to have to pay to park so we illegally stopped on the side of the road to take a picture from far away. Roosevelt had scaffolding across his face anyways(nose job?)...
Many hours and dirt roads later, we arrived at Badlands National Park. We thought it was just going to be large empty fields with the occasional hill...
First, hundreds of Prairie dogs started popping up out of the ground making cute noises.... And then we drove into a herd of Bison!

As we got deeper into the park, the terrain changed completely. There were very unique rock formations and deep valleys. It was by far one of the most picturesque parks we visited. Also, one of the least crowded which was a breath of fresh air after Yellowstone!