Tag - #badlandsnationalpark

A Few of Our Favorite Things

April 22, 2020Carolyn Loudenslager7 comments

This is it folks, the answer to the question we are asked most often: “which park was your favorite.” I’ll cut to the chase and tell you that we didn’t have one favorite park – at least not one that all family members agreed on.  The best we could do was create favorite park categories where we had a high degree of family alignment.  After a year in the...

Badlands

Badlands National Park

September 9, 2019Dan Muir4 comments

Mako Sica.  This is what the native Lakota Indian tribes called the area.  Loosely translated it means “land bad”.  When French trappers showed up in the mid 1700’s, they called the area Les Mauvaises Terres, “The Bad Land”.  American settlers came next and in keeping with the theme, they simply referred to the area as “Badlands...