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badlands

[bad-landz] / ˈbædˌlændz /
NOUN
barren land
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Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

It’s also Robby’s final day of work before embarking on a three-month motorcycle road trip set to take him from Pittsburgh to the Canadian badlands.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

So arresting were the badlands surrounding the 2.5-mile Twenty Mule Team Canyon drive that it took us 20 minutes to complete.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Hike, bike, ride horses, canyoneer, take photographs, rock climb, drive an off-road vehicle, stargaze and more in 217,000 acres of badlands, canyons and sandstone formations.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

A flash flood washed the makeshift road away, so he moved twenty miles out, toward the Borrego badlands, where he camps beside an isolated stand of cottonwoods.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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