swap_horiz Slim Buttes Alternatives

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Painted Hills

The Painted Hills are one of the three units of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon. Their bands of...

USA Colorful Oregon Eocene

8.7 Great

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Little Missouri Badlands

The Little Missouri Badlands are an eroded landscape surrounding the Little Missouri River in western North Dakota. Laye...

USA Grassland River Valley North Dakota

8.5 Great

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Palo Duro Canyon

Palo Duro Canyon is an extensive canyon system in the Texas Panhandle, southeast of Amarillo, carved primarily by the Pr...

USA Canyon Texas State Park

8.4 Great

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Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument

Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a 377,000-acre federal monument in north-central Montana established by...

USA Montana River National Monument

8.2 Great

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Colorado National Monument

Colorado National Monument is a protected landscape established in 1911 near Grand Junction and Fruita in western Colora...

USA Colorado Sandstone National Monument

8.2 Great

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Bentonite Hills

The Bentonite Hills are rounded, banded badlands in south-central Utah, particularly associated with the landscape east...

USA Utah Colorful Erosion

8.0 Great

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Valley of the Gods

Valley of the Gods is a landscape of isolated sandstone buttes, towers, and mesas in San Juan County, southeastern Utah....

USA Utah Sandstone Erosion

8.0 Great

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Carrizo Badlands (Anza-Borrego)

The Carrizo Badlands are an expanse of deeply eroded sedimentary terrain in and around the southern portion of Anza-Borr...

USA California State Park Miocene

8.0 Great

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Caprock Canyons State Park

Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park in Briscoe County, where erosion has exposed multicolored...

USA Canyon Texas State Park

7.9 Good

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Wahweap Badlands

The Wahweap Badlands are an eroded landscape in southern Utah near the community of Big Water and the Grand Staircase-Es...

USA Utah Colorful Erosion

7.8 Good

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Factory Butte

Factory Butte is an isolated landform near Caineville in Wayne County, Utah, rising above broad badland flats shaped lar...

USA Utah Erosion Butte

7.8 Good

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Caineville Badlands

The Caineville Badlands are an area of heavily eroded sedimentary terrain near Caineville in south-central Utah, east of...

USA Utah Erosion Capitol Reef

7.7 Good

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Missouri Breaks

Missouri Breaks is a remote stretch of eroded bluffs and coulees along the upper Missouri River in Montana, designated a...

USA Montana Wilderness River Valley

7.6 Good

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Toadstool Geologic Park

Toadstool Geologic Park is a protected badlands area located in the Oglala National Grassland of northwestern Nebraska....

USA Nebraska Oligocene Erosion

7.4 Good

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Owyhee Badlands

The Owyhee Badlands encompass a highly remote and rugged stretch of canyon and badland terrain along the Owyhee River. S...

USA Wilderness Basalt Erosion

7.3 Good

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Killdeer Badlands

Killdeer Badlands is an eroded badlands area within the Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota, feat...

USA Remote North Dakota Erosion

7.2 Good

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Cheyenne River Badlands

The Cheyenne River Badlands are an eroded landscape along the Cheyenne River in western South Dakota, adjacent to Badlan...

USA River Valley Lakota South Dakota

7.1 Good

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Cave Hills Badlands

Cave Hills Badlands is a remote badlands landscape of eroded formations and buttes in Harding County, South Dakota. It l...

USA Remote South Dakota Erosion

6.9 Fair

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Moreau River Badlands

Moreau River Badlands is an eroded landscape in north-central South Dakota formed around the valley and tributary terrai...

USA Grassland River Valley South Dakota

6.6 Fair

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Grand River Badlands

Grand River Badlands refers to an eroded badlands landscape associated with the Grand River drainage in northwestern Sou...

USA Grassland River Valley Erosion

6.5 Fair