Photographic gallery — Badlands National Park

Mule deer provide scale to a fairy landscape in the Badlands after the passing of a spring storm.

Like sunshine and clouds, the formations in the Badlands are ever-changing, being eroded by wind and weather.

With forest fire smoke in the atmosphere, the moon rises above characteristic formations in Badlands National Park on a still and silent night.

Sunrises and sunsets more than make up for the lack of fall colors in the Badlands as this early autumn photograph shows.

At twilight, the formations in the Badlands take on an otherworldy appearance.

Badlands National Park is a place of quiet beauty. In the early morning and late evenings--especially outside of summer, few people are in the park. Coyotes occasionally howl or bark in the distance, and if the air is still, you can sometimes literally hear nothing.