South Dakota State Guide from Cheap Hotels Worldwide
Well known as the state where you can visit Mount Rushmore, South Dakota is home to 754,844 people. It became a state of the United States in 1889 and leads the country in the production of honey. The state flower is the Pasque and Black Hills Gold jewelery is created and manufactured exclusively in this state. The gold is mined in the Black Hills of South Dakota and makes exquisite jewelery.
At one time, giant bison thundered across the prairies of this state, which was home to the prehistoric Clovis peoples. Here you can see evidence of the past in the burial mounds left behind by the Woodlands and many dinosaur fossils have also been discovered. Although the area was explored in the early 1700's, settlers did not start coming here until after the Lewis and Clark in 1804. Here they encountered the Sioux and Dakota Indians, after whom the state is named. The discovery of gold in the Black Hills in the 1870's brought many more people here.
Of course, every visitor to South Dakota has to see the faces of four presidents carved in the face of a cliff in the Black Hills. Explore the large cities and small towns as you wind your way across the state. Visit the world's largest mammoth research facility in Hot Springs. Here you can tour a paleontological site where you can see fossils dating back to the Ice Age.
See the carving of Crazy Horse, the largest sculpture in the world, just 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. The museum at this site has an impressive array of Native American artifacts and exhibits related to their culture. South Dakota is home to many state parks as well as a national forest. The Badlands National Park is located in the southwestern part of the state with the richest fossil beds in the world. Here you can see many of the native animals of the state living in their natural habitat as well as the endangered black-footed ferret. Mitchell is the site of the only corn palace in the world and this state is synonymous with Buffalo Bill, who is buried in Deadwood.
Get a taste of the Old West when you visit many of the towns of this state and relive some of the events you can remember from old movies. Tour ghosts towns, fish in the streams and climb the high mountains. South Dakota offers everything you would ever want in a vacation and more.
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