10 Bizarre Natural Formations In South Dakota

Nature will always continue to mystify us, especially with some of the crazy natural formations that come from it. Some of these have seemingly impossible structures while others are just completely out of this world. Who knew that the earth could be shaped in such awesome, yet weird ways?

These 10 natural formations in South Dakota came to be from some of the most bizarre ways and have continued to wow and amaze people for centuries. We might be able to carve a mountain to make it beautiful, but nature did this all on its own. See what you think of them:

An impossible-looking balancing rock in the Badlands National Park

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Extremely rare “boxwork” cave formation, found mostly only here, in the Wind Cave National Park

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The needles of the Needles Highway

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And the delicate Needles Eye, all in Custer State Park

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The unusually formed and insanely tall Devils Tower, a laccolith (formed by magma pushing up the earth deep underground)

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Weirdly textured walls in the Jewel Cave National Monument

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The towering King and Queen rocks in the Palisades State Park

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The rainbow of colors that make up the formations in the badlands

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This lonely, gigantic laccolith named Bear Butte, near Sturgis

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Cliffs and rock formations that surround Lake Sylvan

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It’s amazing what nature can do, forming the land into structures we could never dream of. Most of these were mostly made by things like erosion or sediment build up over time, but certain formations like the laccoliths are not. Devils Tower is my favorite out of them all, what’s yours?