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Windcave National Park
South Dakota
Becoming the seventh national park in 1903, the primary goal was to protect a cave. When the park was first established, little wildlife lived there but as the years have passed and the boundaries of the park grew, elk, bison, and pronghorn made this region home.
Although this national park is smaller than other national parks, coming in at 28,295 acres, it still has thousands of visitors that come here each year.
The landscape here has been formed by rocks, featuring some of the oldest in the northwestern area of the park.
These rocks called schists are actually metamorphic rocks that were at one time formed from intense pressure and heat. Scientists estimate this occurrence was some two billion years ago.
Today, you can still enjoy the magnificent structures as they stand tall and proud. To make the rocks even more beautiful, mica crystals grow that have a pink, gray, silver, and black color. The exploration here is absolutely, gorgeous and quite impressive.
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