The two RV Gypsies
at Badlands Petrified Gardens |
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Badlands Petrified Gardens is an unique outdoor park with supposedly the largest petrified trees & logs ever found in the Badlands area, plus an indoor museum features prehistoric Badlands mammal & sea fossils, extensive florescent mineral display, agates, rock, mineral & crystal specimens. Open mid-April to late October.Note: There are a lot of photos on this page and some may take a while to load even through they have been preloaded. Please be patient as you scroll down the page. |
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The Gardens were a grassy compound, hidden from non-paying customers behind a high fence (as shown in the above photos), dotted with petrified wood stumps, logs, and piles."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's funnier to read than to hear statements such as, "The ends of this log look as if beavers gnawed them." |
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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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Another particularly large, very complicated sign of a Geological Time chart. |
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Indoors, a small museum includes 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 & crystal specimens. |
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Menu for the two RV Gypsies
in South Dakota (There is also a link to Wyoming at the bottom of this page) |
S.D. Welcome Center/Rest Area/travel (site 12) |
Travel photos in South-Central SD |
Mitchell Corn Palace - site 13 |
Badlands Petrified Gardens - site 14 (this page) |
Wall Drug, the Jackalope and more- site 14 |
Rapid City, The Berlin Wall, and more- site 15 |
Bear Country USA |
Chapel in the Hills |
Cosmos Mystery Area |
Dinosaur Park in Rapid City |
Formal Gardens and sundial in Rapid City |
Pactola Lake, part of Black Hills National Forest |
Presidential Statues in Rapid City |
Marlins Restaurant |
CAMPGROUNDS THE TWO RV GYPSIES STAYED AT IN SD |
Sioux City North KOA in North Sioux City, SD |
Hills RV Park in Plankinton, SD |
Belvidere East Exit 170 KOA in Midland, SD |
Three Flags RV Park in Black Hawk, SD |
AFTER you have seen all of the above sites in South Dakota, please continue on to the adventures of the two RV Gypsies in Buffalo, Wyoming. |