Badlands National Park
Original, hand-drawn story map and accompanying gifts of Badlands National Park by renowned Illustrator and Xplorer Maps Co-Founder, Chris Robitaille.
Designated as a national monument in 1929 and officially established in 1939, Badlands National Park was redesignated a national park in 1978. Covering nearly 400,000 acres, this striking landscape features sharply eroded buttes, steep canyons, and spires, and is renowned for its significant fossil beds.
The park's diverse wildlife includes bighorn sheep, bison, prairie dogs, and the endangered black-footed ferret. The South Unit, co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe, features Red Shirt Table, the park’s highest point at 3,340 feet.
