Thursday, July 5, 2012

Badlands Nation Park, South Dakota

New Biking State—SOUTH DAKOTA: 4.64 miles TANDEM Pedal Time: 20 minutes, average speed 13.2

Dennis, Jill and I began this western adventure with a final destination of Big Sky, Montana. We planned on viewing a few sights and taking extra time to enjoy this route west. We broke up this day’s 10-hour trip by detouring through South Dakota’s Badlands National Park. The entrance fee was $15 per vehicle. We drove down the Badlands Loop Road until Jill offered to drive the van to the Ben Reifel Visitor Center so that Dennis and I could pedal the tandem through this beautiful section of the Badlands—what a treat this was to have our own SAG service through this National Park. Fabulous scenery was packed into this 5-mile route. This was also our first time biking in South Dakota which gave us another new biking state for this year.
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