Travel to South Dakota
Nickname:
Mount Rushmore State
Country : United States of America (USA)
State : South Dakota (SD)
Largest city : Sioux Falls
Highest point : Harney Peak (2,173 m, 7,242 ft)
State bird: Ring-necked Pheasant
State flower: American Pasque Flower
Capital: Pierre
Date of admission to the Union: 2 Nov 1889
Population: 764,309 (official estimate 2003)
Population density: 16 per sq km
2002 total overseas arrivals: Under 38,000
Time: Central (GMT - 6) in the eastern part of the State; Mountain (GMT -
7) in the west. Daylight Saving Time is observed.
QuickFacts : South
Dakota QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
South Dakota weather
Weather
Underground - South Dakota Conditions
South
Dakota Climatologies Access Page
National Parks and State Parks in South Dakota
Statewide and regional information
South Dakota Home Page
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South Dakota
WorldWeb Travel Guide
Tourism and travel guide to South Dakota with online hotel reservations, interactive
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Black
Hills, Badlands & Lakes Association
This is website, for viewers who are considering a visit to the Black Hills
and Badlands of western South Dakota.
Cities, towns and places in South Dakota
Aberdeen
Convention & Vistors
Bureau of Aberdeen, South Dakota
Brookings
Brookings.com - Welcome
to Brookings, SD
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse Memorial
Foundation Home Page
Custer
Custer South Dakota
Deadwood
There's Only One Deadwood!
The Deadwood Page
Keystone
Beautiful
Rushmore Cave - Keystone, SD
Milbank
Milbank Area Chamber of
Commerce
Pierre
Pierre South
Dakota - Chamber of Commerce
Rapid City
Rapid
City Convention & Visitors Bureau
Rapid City is your bridge to some of the most intriguing and beautiful attractions
in America- The inspirational Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, the visionary
Crazy Horse Memorial, and the tranquil Black Hills National Forest with its
abundant wildlife
Sioux Falls
Welcome To Sioux Falls,S.D.
- The Gateway To The Plains
Wall
Wall, South
Dakota
Wall Drug, an Oasis in
the Badlands of South Dakota
Watertown
Watertown Area Chamber
of Commerce
Webster
The Webster Community
Page
Yankton
Yankton, SD Chamber of
Commerce
South Dakota
The State: Tucked into the heart of the USA, the ‘Mount Rushmore State’
offers untouched nature in abundance, vast stretches of fertile prairies and
early pioneer towns. Near the eastern border, Sioux Falls is the largest city
in the region, and boasts its namesake waterfall, as well as the Center for
Western Studies, the Old Courthouse Museum, St Joseph’s Cathedral and
the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science. On the opposite side of the State,
Rapid City is the gateway to the Black Hills, with mountains, caves, forests
and lakes; Wind Cave National Park; and Custer State Park, with its herd of
over 1500 bison. Jewel Cave National Monument, the third-longest cave in the
world, is also located at Custer.
Also in South Dakota’s southwest corner is its biggest tourist attraction
by far, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where the 18m- (60ft-) high
heads of four US presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore
Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln) have been blasted and carved out of the mountain.
Work began on this massive ‘Shrine of Democracy’ in 1927 and took
14 years to complete. In the Black Hills, the Crazy Horse Memorial, a privately
funded monument, is the world’s largest mountain sculpture in progress.
The upper half of the 22-storey high horses head is a memorial honouring the
North American Indian, standing 171m- (563ft-) high and 195m- (641ft-) long.
The excellent Indian Museum of North America is located at Crazy Horse Memorial
and is well worth a visit.
Just to the south, the community of Hot Springs is home to Evans Plunge, the
world’s largest naturally heated swimming pool and The Mammoth Site,
the world’s largest concentration of Columbian and woolly mammoth bones
discovered in their primary context (ie where they died). Badlands National
Park encompasses 98,785 hectares (244,000 acres) of striking rock formations
– steep canyons, jagged spires, bands of colourful rocks – blended
with mixed-grass prairies. Campgrounds and cabins are available to visitors.
Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is home to numerous attractions, including
the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center, South Dakota National Guard Museum,
South Dakota State Capitol and the South Dakota World War II Memorial. Some
48km (30 miles) north of Fort Pierre is Triple U Buffalo Ranch, the location
of many scenes in the film Dances with Wolves.
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