The wall is more than sixty miles long. It is the geologic feature around which park boundaries were drawn. The Loop Road follows the Wall, sometimes dipping to the lower prairie, then climbing back to the rim.
Anywhere a wagon could be worked up and down the Wall was called a pass by homesteaders. Getting a team and wagon through one of the steep, uneven passes was not to be undertaken lightly.
Today, daily, thousands of people easily negotiate the passes in pickups and automobiles.
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In the 1920s when some of the more successful homesteaders had cars, even they had problems with the passes. No one dared tackle Badlands roads in wet weather without a shovel at hand to dig Model-T's out of ruts and mudholes.
| HM Number | HMUGN |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 at 10:20pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 14T E 266508 N 4852179 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 43.78583333, -101.90183333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 43° 47.15', W 101° 54.11' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 43° 47' 9.00" N, 101° 54' 6.60" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 605 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 21020 SD-240, Interior SD 57750, US |
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