Cactus Flats, South Dakota - Giant Concrete Prairie Dog
- Address:
- Hwy 240 Badlands Loop, Cactus Flats, SD
- Directions:
- The Ranch Store. I-90 exit 131. Drive south on Hwy 240 for one mile.
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Cactus Flats, South Dakota - The Ranch Store - Prairie Dogs From Illinois, back for a third visit in 2008, we are vetted by the greeting committee. Recognize you are in the prairie dogs' home; patience and peanuts will sometimes lessen their timidity. [Ed Glassner, 11/03/2009]
Interior, South Dakota - Cactus Flats - Prairie Dog Town The big cement prairie dog is still there and available for pictures, but I loved the store even more. This is the way souvenir shops should be. Quirky and fun, with friendly staff.
[robin read, 11/22/2004]
Cactus Flats - Interior, South Dakota - Prairie Dog Town The Ranch Store is still booming! You can see the Prairie Dogs for free, but you have to buy bags of peanuts if you want to feed them. The Ranch Store has a good assortment of candy and I remember there being some rocks and minerals for sale.
A few more miles, and you get to the Prairie Homestead, where you may purchase Rare White Prairie Dogs for a dirt cheap price of only $500.... [Jordan Chastain, 06/07/2003]
[RA: We suspect South Dakota prairie dog commerce -- albino or otherwise -- has been affected by the Monkeypox outbreak.]
Cactus Flats - Interior, South Dakota - Giant Concrete Prairie Dog The Giant Concrete Prairie Dog is
located near the town of Interior, between I-90 and the entrance to the Badlands
National Parks. The giant prairie dog stands sentinel for a colony of very obese
hand-fed prairie dogs located outside of The Ranch Store. You can purchase peanuts
inside the store and feed them to the prairie dogs, which have taken up residence in a
field just beyond the parking lot. There was even an albino prairie dog running
around the colony on the day we visited.
The WL Prairie Dog was a "must see" attraction for me while in South Dakota, after learning of the wholesale slaughter of these cute little buggers expertly documented in Ken Smith's book Raw Deal. [Greg Brown, 10/21/2001]
Cactus Flats - Interior, South Dakota - Giant Concrete Prairie Dog Back in the sixties my family traveled across the country from PA to CA and saw funny "Burma Shave type" signs advertising
for miles before we arrived at the The Ranch Store. Back then they had a rattlesnake farm and a ten foot high prairie dog made
of concrete. Anybody know where it was or is?
[Patricia Cunneen, 06/06/1999][RA: Looks bigger than the concrete Prairie Dog in Oakley, KS.]
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Nearby Offbeat Places
- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, Ellsworth AFB, SD - 1 mi.
- Wall Drug Store, Wall, SD - 21 mi.
- Original 1880 Town, Murdo, SD - 38 mi.
- In the region: Petrified Wood Tombstones, Eli, NE - 67 mi.
