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Home in Lead
4.86 out of 5 average rating, 185 reviewsReato House--Cozy comfort away from home, HOT TUB!
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Home in Hill City
4.99 out of 5 average rating, 199 reviewsCabin - 20 acres w/ horses, goats & mini donkey
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Home in Rapid City
4.94 out of 5 average rating, 479 reviewsRapid City Black Hills Westside Home 1
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Home in Sioux Falls
4.97 out of 5 average rating, 331 reviewsInspiration Ranch-HOT TUB/lower unit/SUPER CLEAN!!
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Home in Spearfish
4.98 out of 5 average rating, 104 reviewsThe little house
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Home in Spearfish
4.98 out of 5 average rating, 240 reviewsFalsebottom Hide-away
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Home in Spearfish
4.95 out of 5 average rating, 128 reviewsSwisher Farmhouse @ Granny Flats
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Home in Rapid City
4.92 out of 5 average rating, 120 reviewsTop of the Hill in Harmony Heights
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Cabin in Custer
4.99 out of 5 average rating, 175 reviewsredblue RIDGE - near trails & parks, horse camp
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Cabin in Wentworth
5 out of 5 average rating, 54 reviewsIntimate lake-side cabin with cozy outdoor space
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Home in Spearfish
4.96 out of 5 average rating, 69 reviewsBeautiful Getaway with Hot Tub
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Cabin in Estelline
4.97 out of 5 average rating, 93 reviews3-Bedroom House on Lake Poinsett
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Yurt in Hermosa
4.97 out of 5 average rating, 63 reviewsElkview Lodge
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Home in Emery
4.98 out of 5 average rating, 65 reviewsSunset Cottage
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Guest suite in Watertown
4.96 out of 5 average rating, 83 reviewsKampeska Lakefront Cottage
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Cabin in Custer
4.98 out of 5 average rating, 83 reviewsCharming Historic Log Cabin
Your guide to South Dakota
Welcome to South Dakota
The landscape shocks and awes in Mount Rushmore State, nicknamed for one of the country’s most iconic monuments. Bighorn sheep inch among brightly banded rock pinnacles in Badlands National Park. Some 70 miles west sprawls Custer State Park, offering twisty drives, cool mountain lakes, and some of the best wildlife viewing on the continent. Long to experience the prairie? Turn to Wind Cave National Park, one of America’s oldest preserves. Bison and elk roam the ancient grasslands blanketing one of the most complex cavern systems in the world.
The best time to stay in a vacation rental in South Dakota
Heat-seekers should aim to book one of the state’s cabins during summer, when daytime highs reach 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit, with night temperatures dropping abruptly to the 50s and 60s. Fall gets chillier before the severely cold winter conditions set in. Think substantial snow and average lows of 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Brrr! For shoulder-season deals and sparser crowds, opt for fall over spring, which serves up more thunderstorms. However, February does bring the quirky Nemo 500 Outhouse Race, where fundraising contestants rally in human-powered shacks with at least one seat hole.
Late June kicks off with the FinnFest in Frederick, celebrating Nordic traditions including a wife-carrying championship in which the prize is the rider’s weight in beer! Also notable: the Fourth of July celebrations at patriotic Mount Rushmore, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August, and September’s Buffalo Roundup (part of the state park’s herd management). For Indigenous history and culture, there’s October’s three-day He Sapa Wacipi Na Oskate (Black Hills Pow Wow), which includes grass dancing.
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Badlands National Park
Around 75 million years ago, a shallow inland sea covered what is now Badlands National Park. After this salty basin drained into the Arctic Ocean, erosion helped sculpt the terrain into an otherworldly riot of pinnacles, buttes, and gorges. One of the world’s richest fossil beds remains, capturing traces of the ancient horses, rhinos, and catlike animals with saber teeth who once roamed the grasslands. Today visitors are more likely to spot bison, bighorn sheep, and black-footed ferrets. If you need a little extra animal excitement, stop just outside the park. A 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog looms there, near an enclosure with a colony of its live cousins.
Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur
The family behind 1880 Town inexplicably built this landmark nearby. A human figure leads his bony T-Rex buddy on a leash: a sight best viewed (carefully) from the roadside. Stretch your legs in earnest 16 miles east at Okaton, a prairie ghost town originally settled by railroad workers. Today you’ll see ramshackle houses, rickety fences, and rusting farm equipment, alongside traces of a failed attempt to monetize the haunting, picturesque spot.
Wall Drug
Eight miles north of Badlands National Park stands a humble 1931 pharmacy that transformed modern tourism. The Hustead family erected signs offering free ice water to drivers on Route 16. Soon their kitschy hand-painted billboards marched across the prairie and even further afield, cropping up in London, Morocco, and even Easter Island. Stop in to see the jackalopes and giant dinosaurs.
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