Badlands National Park: Sage Creek Campground

Approaching the Big Badlands overlook from the Northeast entrance of Badlands National Park. From this entrance you drive thru and over some of the park's best overlooks, with excellent close-up views of the rock formations for which the park is best known.

View from hilltop overlooking the Sage Creek Campground. Driving west for about an hour, mostly downhill, you pass thru the park from its rock formations, rolling hills, onto grasslands populated by Bison and other large animals. The Sage Creek Campground is a primitive campground in the western part of the park. It has space for parking 12-15 vehicles, picnic tables, and a bathroom facility, but no running water. Trailheads from this campground lead over rolling grasslands and hills.