Tag: south-dakota
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Rapid City, SD
Leaving Devils Tower, we headed east toward Rapid City, which lies at the far west end of South Dakota where the western mountainous region of the state gives way to the eastern grassy prairie areas that dominate the remainder of the state. Turns out, Rapid City is the perfect home base for a thousand different…
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Badlands National Park
Badlands is a unique and oddly-shaped national park. Most of the experience is simply driving from one end to the other, although it offers a couple of decent hiking opportunities as well. The odd shape and driving-focused experience are owing to the harsh stretch of jagged rocks that separate the lower prairie from the upper…
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Custer State Park
The size of a national park, and with some of the features of a national park, Custer State Park in South Dakota is pretty incredible for a not-a-national-park destination. Mostly because of the animals. Ok it’s entirely because of the animals. This park has an 18-mile loop road that is dedicated to animal viewing and…
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Everybody knows Rushmore. No explanation or description required. It’s a bunch of old dudes carved in rock on the side of a hill, so let’s check this box and move on, right? Wrong. It was one of the best experience’s we’ve had on this trip. The overall impact, the history, and the presentation itself were…
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