SOUTH DAKOTA ●●
Black Hills
Hills State Park in Canton. Three years later, paleontologists
Horseback riding trails are featured uncovered a fossil bed more than
in Custer State Park, the Lewis 32 million years old in Badlands
and Clark Recreation Area National Park, revealing 18 types of
and Bear Butte State Park. animals. And at The Mammoth
Chuckwagon dinner shows are also Site in Hot Springs, 53
popular in South Dakota. Some offer Columbian mammoths and three
an open-air dinner experience at woolly mammoths have been
a campsite, complete with dinner unearthed since 1974. ✪
and a cowboy music show, while
others such as the Fort Hays
Chuckwagon Supper &
Show near Rapid City, are staged
this part of South Dakota without SADDLE UP indoors. LEARN MORE:
hearing about Wall Drug. It There are so many trails in South South Dakota is also a major
South Dakota Tourism
dates back to the 1930s, when Dakota that horseback riders of all centre of paleontology, so it’s no
711 E. Wells Ave. Capitol Lake Plaza
the Hustead family bought the levels will fi nd something to suit. surprise that the most complete
Pierre, SD 57501
only drugstore in the town of Wall. In the Black Hills National Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered
Contact: Maureen Droz
maureen.droz@state.sd.us
Struggling to make a go if it, Dorothy Forest, riding lessons are available; – estimated to be 67 million
Tel: 605-773-3301
Take more than souvenirs home.
Hustead decided to offer free water other options include admiring the years old – was discovered on
Fax: 605-773-3256
and ice to hot, sticky travellers breathtaking views of Badlands the Cheyenne River Sioux
www.travelsd.com
passing through. Fifty years later, National Park or Newton Indian Reservation in 1990.
20,000 people a day were visiting
There’s no better place to carve out a memory than in the breathtaking peaks of
Wall Drug, a unique concoction of
South Dakota’s Black Hills and Badlands. Here, you can discover something new every day,
Wild West outfi tters, art galleries,
South Dakota Roundup
from unearthed fossils to buffalo safaris, powwows and painted canyons.
jewellers and wax-fi gure displays.
Heading west out of Rapid City,
visit Sturgis, a small, sleepy town MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL Jane, in Mt. Moriah Cemetery. The Adams Museum
Take in these sights with all the comforts of home in Rapid City, centrally located
that explodes into life each August MEMORIAL/CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL: provides more information on the pair.
with over 5,000 hotel rooms, restaurants, shops and attractions alongside the history
when the week-long Sturgis The 60 foot-high faces of George Washington,
of Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial.
Motorcycle Rally takes place Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham INDIAN POWWOW: Experience a traditional
and around 500,000 motorcyclists Lincoln dwarf the Statue of Liberty’s head (it’s “only” Indian powwow, or “wacipi” (dance). Enjoy
descend on the area. 17 feet tall) and were carved between 1927 and traditional Native American food as dancers
Nearby, Spearfi sh Canyon 1941. Nearby is the Crazy Horse Memorial: Started show off their fancy work against a background
gives another example of just how seven years after Mount Rushmore was completed, of drumming and singing. Many powwows also
spectacular South Dakota can the monument is still under construction today. include traditional, fancy and jingle dress dancing
be. The Spearfi sh Canyon When completed, it will be 563 feet high. competitions.
National Scenic Byway is 19
miles of towering limestone cliffs DEADWOOD: Visit the Old Style Saloon No. 10 TRAIL RIDE: Enjoy an old-fashioned trail ride
covered with aspen, birch and white in the famous Western town of Deadwood, where through the stunning scenery of the Black Hills.
spruce trees. Follow a narrow, tree- Wild Bill Hickok was killed on August 2, 1876. Then Climb mountain trails, enjoy a cowboy supper
enshrouded path and discover the pay your respects at the graves of both Hickok and around the campfi re and sleep under the stars for a
peace and tranquillity of the glorious Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity picture-perfect Western holiday.
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