You can hike into the park pretty much anywhere you want. There aren't lots of defined trails. You are advised to watch your footing. The number one cause of injury in this park is falling. The buttes are not terribly stable. The surface is soft and it moves, especially at the edges.
You are also cautioned to wear hiking boots, not only for the footing, but because there are rattlesnakes throughout the park. We did not see or hear any. The snakes enjoy crevasses or tall grasses. We decided not to wade into either.
Jan noticed that the colors of the topography "popped" when she put on her sunglasses because they polarize light. DOH! I own a polarizing filter. I twisted that onto my lens and rotated it a bit. Bingo. Colors in the rocks emerged. It also helps to take the pictures as near sunrise as your body will tolerate while on vacation. Ideally, an hour before or after sunrise works best. Same at sunset. The filter allowed me to stretch the light a bit further.
Getting internet access is less and less of a challenge. You can find it if you look. In Medora, the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation wired the town. It was Google Fiber fast. I can shoot up to 200 pictures in an outing and I could dump them all into my cloud space in two minutes.
Inside Badlands National Park there is WiFi at Cedar Pass, where we are staying. Everyone who travels through the park stops at Cedar Pass. For most of the day the WiFi signal is just too saturated. I am able to get a 4G signal. Not really inside the cabin, but on our back porch.
I use "tethering" to share the signal to my laptop. The back porch is also our clothes dryer on this trip. We hand wash in the sink and then put them on the backs of those chairs. Most of the clothes dry in a few hours. Sometimes the socks are stubborn. We put those on the back ledge, beneath the rear window of the car. That works very well too.
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