South Dakota
Find South Dakota travel tips, stories, maps, videos and news for unusual tourist attractions and sights.
Featured Attractions
Devil's Gulch - Jesse James Jumped Here
Garretson, South Dakota
Legendary leap for a legendary law breaker.
Cosmos Mystery Area
Rapid City, South Dakota
Two identical shacks distorted by the forces of gravity and crowd flow.
Porter Sculpture Park
Montrose, South Dakota
Features a 60-foot-tall, 25-ton sculpture of a bull's head -- and its creator may be lurking inside.
1880 Cowboy Town
Buffalo Ridge, South Dakota
Animated characters creak to life to tell their stories of the Wild West.
Chief Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse, South Dakota
Bigger than Mount Rushmore. And more than a head.
Petrified Wood Park
Lemmon, South Dakota
Forest of frozen fossils -- hundreds of spires, buildings and piles made from petrified wood in the 1930s.
Skull and Bones of Hero the Circus Elephant
Vermillion, South Dakota
A town's entire supply of ammunition was spent bringing down this misunderstood giant.
Hugh Glass Monument
Shadehill, South Dakota
Frontiersman Hugh Glass was nearly killed by a grizzly bear here in 1823. Glass revived and crawled, with a broken leg, infection and fever, 200 miles to safety.
Dinosaur Park
Rapid City, South Dakota
Free park of concrete dinosaurs stand on a hill above Rapid City.
Trunkations
42 Corners, 42 Presidents
Rapid City - For decades, the civic leaders of Rapid City, South Dakota, have seen millions of tourists drive through town heading south to view the big heads at Mt. Rushmore. Full story
Videos from the Road
Road trip clips, owner rants, art and junk in South Dakota Videos.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Also see: Complete list of South Dakota attractions.
- Aberdeen: Story Book Land [tips]
- Belle Fourche: Shepherd's Monument [tips]
- Buffalo Ridge: 1880 Cowboy Town
- Cactus Flats - Interior: Giant Prairie Dog [tips]
- Chamberlain: Al's Oasis [tips]
- Crazy Horse: Chief Crazy Horse Memorial
- Custer: Flintstone's Bedrock City [tips]
- Deadwood: #10 Saloon, and Bill Hickok sights
- Garretson: Devil's Gulch - Jesse James Jumped Here
- Gregory: Outhouse Museum [tips]
- Hill City: Everything Prehistoric [tips]
- Huron: World's Largest Pheasant [tips]
- Keystone: National Presidential Wax Museum
- Lemmon - Shadehill: Hugh Glass Monument
- Lemmon: Petrified Wood Park
- Mitchell: Corn Palace
- Mobridge: Battle for Sitting Bull's Grave
- Montrose: Porter Sculpture Park
- Murdo: Pioneer Auto Museum
- Murdo: Skeleton walking Dinosaur [tips]
- Rapid City: Cosmos Mystery Area
- Rapid City: Dinosaur Park
- Rapid City: Reptile Gardens
- Redfield: Pheasant Capital of the World [tips]
- Roslyn: International Vinegar Museum [tips]
- Sioux Falls: Concrete Outline of the USS South Dakota
- Sioux Falls: Replica David and Moses [tips]
- Vermillion: National Music Museum [tips]
- Vermillion: Skull and Bones of Circus Elephant "Hero" [tips]
- Wall: Wall Drug [tips]
- Webster: Shoe House, World's Largest Hairball [tips]
