Tag: Hiking

A short, steep connector trail linking the road to the Castle Trail and Medicine Root Loop — brief but a

A quiet boardwalk loop through a wooded juniper pocket clinging to the Badlands Wall, offering shade and a different ecosystem

A quieter loop through mixed-grass prairie, often combined with a portion of the Castle Trail — good for wildlife spotting

A maze-like network of narrow sandstone canyons, requiring either a ranger-led tour or a self-guided permit — genuinely different from

A dramatic walk between towering sandstone fins that resemble a city skyline, most often hiked one-way downhill if you can

A short, flat walk to one of the park’s most massive formations — two arches sharing the same base, popular

A very short loop around the base of Balanced Rock, one of the park’s most photographed formations — a massive

A quieter loop through open desert to Broken Arch, with far fewer crowds than the park’s more famous formations —