Mitchell, South Dakota: Corn Palace
This corn-plastered edifice has proclaimed itself the "agricultural showplace of the world" for over 100 years.
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According to a story in Ag Week, the Corn Palace's outdoor corn-art murals for 2020 -- they're changed every year -- won't be completed until early summer, a delay that Corn Palace director Doug Greenway said had never happened before. The corn-art murals are usually stripped off the outside of the building in the fall, after tourist season, and then new ones are created in place before the sub-freezing South Dakota winter sets in.
The 2020 Corn Palace mural theme will be "South Dakota Homegrown," which is slightly embarrassing because the delay, according to Ag Week, was caused by a bad growing season in 2019.
Corn Palace director Greenway looked on the bright side, pointing out that early summer 2020 tourists will have a unique chance to see the corn-art murals as they're being made. If it proves popular, he said, it might be repeated in future years as well.
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 01/27/2020]
The Corn Palace is surely worth the trip during the annual Corn Festival.
[Becky, 08/25/2019]
Enjoyed the stop. This year's theme is the military. While we were there it was being changed to a South Dakota theme.
[Anne Pimental, 07/12/2019]
This year's Corn Palace mural theme is a salute to the military.
[Kris, 06/22/2019]Strength and Peace Through Corn.
Building made out of corn. Corn art. History of corn.
[Erin B, 07/05/2018]The corn mural theme changes yearly (most years); this one is 2017-18 -- South Dakota weather scenes of drought and lightning storms.
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Corn Palace
- Address:
- 604 N. Main St., Mitchell, SD
- Directions:
- I-90 to Mitchell. North on Hwy 37 (Burr Street). Left on Havens Avenue. Right on Sanborn Boulevard. Left on 7th Avenue for three blocks; free public parking.
- Phone:
- 605-996-6223
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
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Mitchell's Corn Festival is usually on a latter weekend in August, before Labor Day weekend.