Badlands Loop Scenic Byway
Badlands Loop Scenic Byway is a scenic drive in South Dakota. Within South Dakota it covers roughly 40 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Badlands Loop Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
SD-240 loops through Badlands National Park, winding among eroded buttes, spires, and banded pinnacles that glow in shifting colors at sunrise and sunset. Numerous overlooks take in the stark, otherworldly terrain, and bison, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn range across the mixed-grass prairie at the park's edge. The transition from flat grassland to the jagged Badlands wall is abrupt and dramatic.
- eroded buttes & spires
- Badlands National Park
- banded rock colors
- bison & bighorn sheep
- SD-240
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About this drive
This is a scenic drive — a road worth taking for the views and the journey itself rather than the quickest line between two points.