![]() ![]() I admit, I did not feel compelled at all to go say hello to the other RV, just the Airstream. It was then she said those infamous words supporting it with the fact that I chose to meet the other Airstream family, not the Class-C RV parked to our opposite side. We chatted for a few minutes and I returned to Kerri, working hard as usual. ![]() Within a few hours they were out enjoying the afternoon breeze so I went out to say hello to our neighbors. It wasn’t planned, it just happened to be the best spot for us. It was at Sage Creek Campground that Kerri noticed a tiny little action of mine that prompted her to say, “you are a true Airstreamer now.” Upon arrival we pulled up to a family in a classic Airstream. It is on this western side of the park that the Buffalo roam, in huge numbers I might add. I can’t imagine how the weekends must be. Within a few short hours of sunrise, nearly all of them will have left. By nightfall there was little room left for anything but tents. By mid afternoon cars and even a few RVs start pulling in for an overnight spot. The campground is small, and mostly only tent campers come out this far, but man does the place pack in a crowd each night. 12 miles of gravel road gets you there, and it is worth it. Sage Creek Campground is not only free, it is out in the middle of no-where-South-Dakota. Anyway, if you are looking for them, they are on the East side of the park. I am pretty indifferent about badlands, neither attracted too or away from them. ![]() Pretty in the right light, and ugly if the mood is right. What is there to say about badlands? They are badlands, nothing more, nothing less. The Eastern side is where the badlands area is as well as the majority of the crowds. As luck would have it one of those campgrounds is down a long ribbon of gravel road and the scene for our final two days in the area. Unfortunately, the reality is that the loop road is very nicely paved and no camping is allowed other than in the designated campgrounds. I have no idea where I got that vision of the park, but it was deeply embedded in my brain. I was looking forward to that kind of solitude and closeness to the grassland and wildlife that roam there. For some reason I had this misconception that the loop road was not paved, and that you could camp anywhere off that road. The first two trips into the park happened while based out of Wall Drug, and another later in the week as we abandoned Wall Drug for some boondocking in the park boundary itself.īadlands became my 79th National Park visited ( I’ve been on a streak lately) and one I’ve been looking forward too for quite some years. Actually, we took numerous trips into the park over the week. We nearly had to pass by Badlands National Park in central South Dakota, but as luck would have it ( what does that saying even mean?) we had made the trip out no matter the hell-on-earth-heat that was rolling through South Dakota. ![]()
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