Western South Dakota Tourism
Western South Dakota Tourism on SouthDakotaBeautiful.com Western South Dakota Tourism - also known as the Black Hills, Badlands, & Lakes Region - your South Dakota Tourist Guide to Vacations, Attractions and Events
Prairie Homestead Historic Site - Philip, South Dakota
The Prairie Homestead is one of the very few sod dwellings intact today. The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s cultural resources worthy of preservation.
The homesteaders’ living conditions in the early 1900s were similar to the conditions found in the Eastern United States 200 years earlier.
Pioneer Auto Show & Prairie Town - Murdo, South Dakota
Murdo’s fabulous display of more than 250 antique, classic and muscle cars. Featuring Elvis Presley’s personal cycle and the Dukes’ "General Lee." Including collections of tractors, toys, guns, music machines, Zeitner’s rocks & gems. Pioneer Food Court. Antiques & gifts.
Petrified Wood Park - Lemmon, South Dakota
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.
Paradise Valley Trail Rides - Nemo, South Dakota
Paradise Valley Trail Rides - Nemo, South Dakota
If you have always dreamt about riding a horse like the cowboys did then you will want to visit this site and take that memorable ride of a lifetime!
Old MacDonald’s Farm - Rapid City, South Dakota
Old MacDonald’s Farm - Rapid City, South Dakota hosts this beautiful farm offering pony & train rides for the kids. World-class pig races. Hand feed, pet & even bottle feed some of the animals.
Nelson’s Garage Car Museum - Deadwood, South Dakota
Nelson’s Garage Car Museum - Deadwood, South Dakota
James Bond’s Aston Martin; Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am to Herbie; 1983 Ferrari 308 used in the TV series Magnum P.I all await you in Deadwood at Nelson’s Garage Car Museum.
National Presidential Wax Museum - Keystone, South Dakota
Beneath the watchful gaze of Mount Rushmore is the National Presidential Wax Museum in Keystone, South Dakota sits the National Presidential Wax Museum.
Filled with life-size, life-like wax figures the museum offers an opportunity to get a feel for the history surrounding the events occuring during the presidential terms of those shown.
National Museum Of Woodcarving - Custer, South Dakota
The concept behind the National Museum of Woodcarving is to display some of the best woodcarvings in the nation for the public to see and appreciate. You’ll find an entire gallery dedicated to prominent wood carvings by noted woodcarvers and woodcarving groups.
Museum Of Geology - Rapid City, South Dakota
The Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines has an outstanding mount of a 29 foot long mosasaur originally identified as Mosasaurus conodon. World-class of Badlands mammals, marine reptiles and dinosaurs. Superb exhibits of meteorites, minerals, ores and gold.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Rapid City (Keystone), South Dakota
Mount Rushmore near Rapid City in Keystone, South Dakota is most famous for the faces of the four presidents carved on the mountain, Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson. But the presidents are all there is to see and do at Mount (Mt.) Rushmore, there is hiking, biking and motorcycle riding, and view both large and small wildlife. It is located 23 miles southwest of Rapid City.
