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Badlands Ranch and Resort
Motel
management is not a new venture for Jacob Sharp. He has managed two
other
motels in Montana and Wyoming before coming home to the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in 1999, where he was born and raised, to open the Badland
Ranch
and Resort.
Located on
the northern end of the reservation along the White River in the badlands
of South Dakota, the ranch and resort has been a life long dream of Jacob.
Both Jacob and his wife, Judy, have put alot of thought and planning into the year
round resort and even transferred trees to the area. Today the resort
has become a popular resort for tourists and the local communities in
the area to enjoy the hospitality of the Sharps. Visitors can experience
horseback riding, small game hunting, rock and fossil hunting, fishing
in three ponds fed by natural springs, bicycling, hunting, swimming and
camping.
The resort
offers plenty of lodging including a beautiful rustic lodge with a spectacular
view of the badlands. Cabins, RV hookup area and camping grounds and tipis
are available. The resort provides visitors everything they need to enjoy
their stay including satellite TV and internet access, refrigerators,
microwaves oven, air conditioning, shaded area for camping.
Six years after the Badlands Ranch and Resort has successfully operated and Jacob
is very optimistic that his business will continue to grow and would like
to extend an invitation to visitors to the resort.
This will truly be an experience you will remember.