Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... Cell phones are not always reliable in the park, where service can be spotty. Make sure to pick up a park map from an entry booth, ...

WHEN THE BONES OF THE BADLANDS turn up in the wrong hands, "Rachel Benton is the first person we call," says López. "She has to tell us what we're looking at." Benton, the park paleontologist ...