Lemmon, South Dakota: Petrified Wood Park
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- Address:
- 500 Main Ave., Lemmon, SD
- Directions:
- Take US-12 into town. Turn north at the Petrified Wood Park sign onto Main Ave. Drive four blocks to the Park, on the right.
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
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A scenic ridge-top forest of fossil logs, built as a public park from 1930-32 by town men under the command of visionary Ole S. Quammen.
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Let's not forget the high ratio of bad mannequins also found at this glorious locale.
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Looking at our our own pix of the museum church scene, the woman mannequin used to hold a baby. David Bowie's presence is unexplained. Many of the figures have inhumanly large eyes painted on, an effect we much appreciate (so Lemmon, please don't change anything).