Visit the Ben Reifel Visitor Center

15-60 Minutes

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Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

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The Ben Reifel Visitor Center includes ramp entrances, accessible movie theater seating, accessible bathrooms, and spacious museum exhibits for those who use wheelchairs. The museum exhibits also contain tactile exhibits and audio-visual elements for those who are blind or low-vision. Ask rangers at the front desk about audio-described and text-only brochures. For captioned and audio-described versions of the park film, talk to the rangers at the front desk. Service animals are the only animals allowed in the visitor center. Emotional support animals are not service animals and are not allowed in the building.

No — Pets are prohibited in the Ben Reifel Visitor Center unless they are a certified service animal. Emotional support animals are not service animals and are not allowed in the visitor center. Pets are permitted in Badlands National Park with some restrictions. Pets must be kept on a leash no more than six feet in length at all times. Pets are only permitted in developed areas, such as campgrounds and picnic areas, and other areas open to motor vehicles, such as gravel and paved roadways, roadway corridors, and parking lots. Pets are prohibited from hiking trails, public buildings (i.e. visitor centers), and backcountry areas, including the Badlands Wilderness Area, and areas with prairie dog colonies. Pet etiquette dictates always cleaning up animal waste and disposing of it in trash receptacles.

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