Badlands (disambiguation)

Badlands are a type of terrain with clay-rich soil, and are found in regions with arid climate.

Badlands may also refer to:

Places

• Big Muddy Badlands, a series of badlands in southern Saskatchewan and northern Montana along Big Muddy Creek

Canada

• Badlands Guardian, a geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat, Alberta
• Alberta Badlands, part of the Canadian Interior Plains
• Badlands, Alberta or Municipal District of Badlands, a former municipal district almagamated into Drumheller, Alberta

United States

• The Badlands (California), a mountain range in Riverside County, California
• Oregon Badlands Wilderness, a wilderness area located east of Bend in Deschutes and Crook counties
• Philadelphia Badlands, Pennsylvania
• Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota

• Badlands Wilderness, a wilderness area located entirely within the national park

• Badlands Observatory, an astronomical observatory named after the South Dakota Badlands

Kenya

• Elmenteita Badlands, a lava flow in Kenya that covers approximately 9000 acres

Entertainment

Music

• Badlands (American band), an American hard rock band formed by Jake E. Lee

• Badlands (album), a 1989 album by the band of the same name

• Badlands (U.K. band), a band formed by John Sykes
• "Badlands" (Bruce Springsteen song), a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town
• Badlands, a 2011 album by the Canadian indie rock musician Dirty Beaches
• Badlands, an album and song by Bill Chinnock
• "Badlands", a song by AC/DC from the album Flick of the Switch
• "Badlands", a song by Metal Church from the album Blessing in Disguise
• "Bad Lands", a song by Zion I & The Grouch from Heroes in the City of Dope

Film

• Badlands (film), a 1973 Terrence Malick film
• The Bad Lands, a 1925 film starring Harry Carey
• The Badlanders, a 1958 western film
• Bad Lands (1939 film), a 1939 film
• Into the Badlands, a 1991 Sam Pillsbury film

Video games

• Badlands (laserdisc video game), a 1984 laserdisc video game by Konami
• Badlands (video game), a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games
• Hummer Badlands, a 2006 racing game
• Badlands, a playable map in Team Fortress 2

People

• Eric 'Badlands' Booker (born 1969), American hip hop artist and competitive eater

Other Uses

• Badlands (Star Trek), a location in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Operation Badlands, part of the Iraq War that began in 2003
• Bad Land: An American Romance, a travelogue by Jonathan Raban
• "Badlands", an episode of Jewel Riders
• Badlands, a 1975 novel by Robert Kroetsch about the Red Deer Valley of southern Alberta
• Badlands, a comic book mini-series by Steven Grant

See also

• Scablands