Notch Trail

Notch Trail is a roughly 1.5-mile out-and-back foot trail in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Difficulty: moderate, from Trailbound's popular-hike list. That is the full hike: the mapped trail line covers only 0.66 mi of it, so don't plan from the map line alone.

Notch Trail, Badlands National Park
Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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