Cedar Pass Lodge | Badlands Nat'l Park

The ambiance and comfort is wonderful and the views of the Park are magnificent.

Badlands National Park

Cedar Pass Lodge welcomes you to the Badlands

Imagine viewing a land where sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires are blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. This extraordinary region is the Badlands, located in southwestern South Dakota, just east of Rapid City.

The best of these savagely beautiful badlands comprise the 244,000 acres of Badlands National Park, a unique region so ruthlessly ravaged by wind and water that has become a scenic wonderland.

See South Dakota and the Badlands

This particular area is home to the Oglala Sioux, which is part of the Great Sioux Nation. This vast region was once home to the mysterious and little studied paleo-Indians who are thought to be some of the first inhabitants of the Badlands region.

The Badlands are also known worldwide to have the most significant mixed-grass prairie, the best known Oligocene fossil resources, and remnants of sea and turtle shells, leading proof this area was once under water.

Directions & Map to Cedar Pass Lodge

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From Sioux Falls:
Travel west on I-90 to exit 131. Turn south onto Hwy 240, the Badlands Loop Road and enter Badlands National Park at the Northeast entrance. Travel 8 miles to Cedar Pass Lodge.
From Rapid City: Travel east on I-90 to exit 110 or exit 131.
From exit 110, turn south onto Hwy 240, the Badlands Loop Road and enter Badlands National Park at the Pinnacles entrance. Travel 30 miles to Cedar Pass Lodge.
From exit 131, turn south onto Hwy 240, the Badlands Loop Road and enter Badlands National Park at the Northeast entrance. Travel 8 miles to Cedar Pass Lodge.

From Rapid City, SD on Scenic Highway 44:
Travel southeast on Hwy 44 to the town of Interior and continue northeast on Hwy 377 two miles. Cedar Pass Lodge is located one mile further northeast of the Interior entrance station. At the stop sign, turn right. The Lodge is on the south side of the Loop road (Hwy 240), just southwest of the Ben Reifel Visitor Center.

Cedar Pass Lodge is on the east side of Hwy 377, just past the Ben Reifel park visitor center.
Badlands Inn is on the east side of Hwy 377, one-and-a-half miles from Cedar Pass Lodge and the Ben Reifel park visitor center.

Address:
20681 South Dakota Highway 240, Interior, SD 57750

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