This was actually taken with my iPhone 14. I have a Canon DSLR (rebel I think) that I forgot to pack for that trip 🤦‍♀️

I passed through here when I was 5. It's my most vivid memory of that drive. I thought it looked exactly like a Road Runner cartoon.

If you're shooting a 25 second exposure in the early morning hours when sunlight is just barely visible in the sky, then yes, you can get an image that really looks like this. But even though the Milky Way will be visible to the naked eye at that time, it definitely won't be this clear and detailed. Only a camera sensor can capture it in the way you see here.

I went there in January 2023 and it was super foggy in the morning. Tried to drive through and legit couldn’t see anything more than 10 feet ahead of me. Luckily it cleared up in the early afternoon and I got to explore the badlands for the rest of the day.

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We stopped there on a family road trip 20 years ago and it still gets talked about. Very cool place

What reasons? That part of the country always interested me.

I had a bad time in those lands.

Standing at the edge of those gorges, it's so easy to slip and fall. Worst vertigo I ever had.

And then the bugs ate me alive. Tiny yellow biters swarmed into my hair. I had an allergic reaction, and had to rush over to a pharmacy for some Benadryl. Sadly, the Wall Drug store was closed at the time.

So far south it looks like a Y, as in Y are you here, it's too damn cold

Fantastic.

What camera and lens did you use?

One of the most beautiful places I've ever been in my life.

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"All the earth colors of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands." Georgia O'Keefe

My wife is from SD. We love the Badlands and Black Hills area. Thanks for sharing your pic!

If I remember right the grass was about knee high at most, I wasn’t standing too far from the range when I took it, maybe about 2-3 football fields away.

All about perspective. I come from Illinois so they seemed like mountains to me 😂.

This doesn't even look real. It looks like an MMO zone "wall" or something.

Oh bummer! We were in mid-May, got a great break with the weather.

Maybe! We did not camp, I wish we did. It’s a gorgeous park.

>Weather in Badlands National Park is variable and unpredictable with temperature extremes ranging from 116°F to -40°F.

They're aptly named.

Google Maps has a "Terrain" layer you can select; it puts height contours on the regular map. Looks like the tops range from ~2800 ft to just over 3000 ft, with the typical nearby flatland surface contours around 2100 ft. So yeah, not that tall, it seems. Interesting.

Came here expecting this, thank you for not disappointing lol

The hills are actually quite small. I came through on a road trip last summer and was surprised at how short they were. I can't find any numbers for average height on Google, but a topo map would have the info.

I also think that was funny

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Ugh I meant neighbors. It autocorrected.

Half the country lives in one city, always thought that was interesting