Historic Echoes in a Dramatic Landscape
Just Ahead’s GPS-guided smartphone audio tour of Badlands National Park is a narrated experience of a dramatic and historic landscape laced with wildly eroded formations and soul-stirring expanses of prairie grasslands. Echoes of history are everywhere. You simply turn on the app and drive. As you approach the scenic wonders and historic sites, Just Ahead tells you exactly what you’re seeing.
Sample a few of the 100+ stories that play automatically as you drive to and through Badlands:
We guide you to all of the top sights in Badlands National Park…
BADLANDS WALL • BIGFOOT PASS • PANORAMA POINT • BIG PIG DIG • YELLOW MOUNDS • THE PINNACLES • FOSSIL EXHIBIT TRAIL • THE NOTCH • SAGE CREEK RIM ROAD • ROBERTS PRAIRIE DOG COLONY • CASTLE TRAIL • BIG BADLANDS OVERLOOK
The Badlands area is rich with wonderful attractions, both natural and historic. In addition to your park tour, we guide you to…
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (Cold War nuclear-missile launch site) • Wall Drug (everyone’s favorite roadside attraction) • Buffalo Gap National Grassland • Wounded Knee Museum • Prairie Homestead
As you drive this expansive country, we tell you stories about its rich history…
Wounded Knee • Prairie Homesteaders • The Cold War • The Oglala Sioux • Pine Ridge Reservation • Buffalo Jump • Chief Spotted Elk
Plus the natural history of the badlands, grasslands, and the riches buried in the soft earth…
Badlands Geology • Grasslands of the Great Plains • So You Want to Be a Paleontologist? • Fossil Digs and Laboratory • A Tyrannosaurus Rex Named Sue
Wildlife abounds here, and we tell you where to watch for…
Bison • Pronghorn • Prairie Dogs • Black-Footed Ferrets • Bighorn Sheep • Burrowing Owls • Swift Fox • Jackalopes (just kidding)
We suggest all of the park’s best viewpoints, plus where to camp, eat, sleep, hike, and take side trips. Museums to visit, roadside attractions, and historic sites. Even where to ride a jackalope!
You’ll experience Badlands and the region as you never could on your own—and there’s no need to take your eyes off the scenery to thumb through maps and guidebooks.
And it’s the perfect companion to our guide to the nearby Black Hills and Mount Rushmore!