We haven't done the drive east of Sioux St Marie, but the western part we have. Northern Michigan is pretty sparse so get fuel whenever available. Northern Michigan is very picturesque however.
Don't know which badlands you mean, North Dakota or South Dakota. Whichever, I doubt you can do it in a one day drive. We live south of the Twin Cities and either one is at least a three day drive for us. Both are over a thousand miles from Sioux St Marie as the crow flies.
If you take the Southern route I would slip south and take I70 west. No tolls, less traffic, better highway, except for Indiana which is pretty rough, and that avoids Chicago. From Indianapolis I would take I39 to I90, then follow that to the South Dakota Badlands.
We have taken the toll road through Chicago and I39, but if you hate heavy traffic, go south.
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