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Notch Trail

Badlands National Park

Notch Trail is not for those afraid of heights. It doesn't help that the rope ladder to the butte shelf is easier to climb up than down. But for those with the constitution to scramble the 1.5 mile loop along a butte outcropping, there are magnificent and exclusive vistas to be experienced

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Cliff Shelf Nature Trail

Badlands National Park

The Badlands National Park has a wealth of short hikes for visitors to enjoy.  The Cliff Shelf Nature Trail is only a half mile boardwalk loop trails through a small juniper forest and sporting views of eroded sandstone buttes.

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Fossil Exhibit Trail

Fossilized skull of a large, pig-like animal known as the Archaeotherium at the Badlands National Park.

Badlands National Park can get remarkably hot in the summer.  Granted, it's no Death Valley, but the idea of an extended hike in the midday heat is unwelcome.  So, the quarter mile loop of the Fossil Exhibit Trail is an opportunity to get out and stretch ones legs without working up a sweat.

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Bridgford BBQ Beef Camp Sandwich

Whether the Bridgford BBQ Beef Camp Sandwich is a terror of Lovecraftian proportions or just bland is a matter of great dispute at our table. Certainly, the "bread" is flavorless, dry, grainy, and strangely salty. It had the texture of mildly stale bread and the flavor of saltine crackers. What pittance of meat there was was cut with an aggressively sweet bbq sauce.

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