Petrified Wood Park - Lemmon, South Dakota

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Petrified Wood Park was built from 1930-32 in Lemmon, South Dakota by town men under the command of visionary Ole S. Quammen.

With scavenge rocks and fossils from the vicinity hauled back to Lemmon local men provided the material for this park. Their labors yielded a castle, a wishing well, a waterfall, the Lemmon Pioneer Museum, and hundreds of pile sculptures– all made of petrified wood.

A hundred conical sculptures are spread around the park at sizes up to 20-ft. tall. Some are made from petrified wood and others from spherical "cannonballs" — round rocks from North Dakota’s Cannonball River.

A building referred to as "the Castle" was crafted from a variety of petrified wood and thousands of pounds of petrified dinosaur and mammoth bones. Inside a room with a gate and spires, dinosaur bones masoned into interior walls

Location: 500 Main Street, Lemmon, SD (Main and 6th St., five blocks north of US 12)

Hours: Memorial Day - Labor Day - Daily 8 am - 6 pm.

Phone: 605-374-3964