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Badlands Petrified Gardens is an unique outdoor park with supposedly the largest petrified trees and logs ever found in the Badlands area, plus an indoor museum features prehistoric Badlands mammal and sea fossils, extensive florescent mineral display, agates, rock, plus mineral and crystal specimens. On this date it was Open mid-April to late October, but things may change as the years go by. The two RV Gypsies can not control if things change after they have posted anything on this, their own personal website. Karen Duquette built this website so they can remember where they went, when they went, and if they wish to return to places or not. But she does hope other travelers explore and enjoy the website, and sign their guestbook. |
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The Gardens are a grassy compound, hidden from non-paying customers behind a high fence (as shown in the above photos). It is dotted with petrified wood stumps, logs, and piles as shown above."Collected here so that all may see one of the wonders of nature" says one of the attraction's many signs. The signs serve as substitutes for a tour guide, and somehow it is funnier to read than to hear statements such as, "The ends of this log look as if beavers gnawed them." |
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Below: Karen Duquette photographed her reflection in a window, using her big Nikon camera. |
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Below: A particularly large, very complicated sign gives a biblical chronology of the Earth, with a precise 371 days assigned to the Flood. |
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Below: Another particularly large, very complicated sign of a Geological Time chart. |
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Below: Lee and Karen Duquette explored Indoors, and liked the small museum which included a fluorescent rock display (the promised Atomic Rainbow) and lots of rocks sitting on little hand-built shelves -- with yet more helpful signs.Two of the two RV Gypsies' favorite exhibits, unique to this museum, were, "Granite drill holes from Washington's nose," and "Mud boulder resembles ham." (photos are shown below) |
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Below: A florescent mineral display, agates, rock, mineral and crystal specimens. |
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AFTER you have seen all of the above sites in South Dakota,