LOCATION South Dakota is a midwestern state in the US. The state is bordered to the north by North Dakota, to the south by Nebraska, to the east by Iowa and Minnesota, and to the west by Wyoming and Montana. It is probably best known as the location of Mount Rushmore.
BLACK HILLS, BADLANDS & LAKES REGION
1880 Train/Black Hills Central Railroad Located near Mt. Rushmore National Monument and Crazy Horse Memorial, the locomotive offers a western experience like no other.
Bear Country USA features the world's largest private collection of North American Black Bear.
Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns are subterranean, crystalline passages in the Paha Sapa limestone.
Parade of Presidents Historical Wax Museum This unique museum features incredibly realistic, life-sized wax figures of all US Presidents.
The Journey Museum brings together four major prehistoric and historic collections to tell the complete story of the Western Great Plains.
Rushmore Cave is the area's largest stalactite cave and the closest cave to Mt. Rushmore National Memorial.
Black Hills Caverns is a huge cave, with a fantastic variety of formations including Logomites, Stalagmites, Stalactites, Helictites, Rare Frost Crystal, Purple Amethyst, Flowstone, Dogtooth Spar Crystal, Boxwork, Cave Flower, Soda Straw Stalactites, Columns, Draperies, Popcorn Crystal, Nailhead Spar Crystal and many more!
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Reptile Gardens
National Museum of Woodcarving
Crazy Horse Memorial
Flintstone's Bedrock City
Rushmore Tramway
Adams Museum & House
Thunder Road Family Fun Park
Dacotah Prairie Museum
Redlin Art Center
SOUTHEAST REGION
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science is the region's newest and largest cultural and entertainment center.
Corn Palace is an outstanding structure, which stands as a tribute to the agricultural heritage of South Dakota.
Smith-Zimmermann Heritage Museum The museum's collections and exhibits focus on the ethnic history of the early settlements in Lake County and surrounding regions in eastern South Dakota from 1860 to the present.
NATIONAL PARKS
The Badlands National Park, located in southwestern South Dakota, is home to the black-footed ferret, the endangered land mammal in North America. The park, which covers 64,000 sq km, consists of 244,000 acres of buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the mixed grass prairie. The Park contains the world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, which are 23 to 35 million years old. "I was totally unprepared for that revelation called the Dakota Bad Lands," said Frank Lloyd Wright.
Jewel Cave National Monument is recognized as the third longest cave in the world. The cave is an important hibernaculum for several species of bats.
Mount Rushmore reflects patriotism; natural beauty and to some it represents a great work of art and still to others it presents a challenge for them to begin to share their own cultures.
Wind Cave National Park is one of the world's longest and most complex caves.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
Missouri National Recreation Area
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