Wall - South Dakota - United States. Guide & Hotel Reservations from Cheap Hotels
If you are considering South Dakota for your next vacation, then visit Wall for the best possible vacation you could ever have. Wall is the beginning of the Great American West and is nestled in the shadow of South Dakota's Badlands. It may be small considering it has only 764 friendly residents, but it is big enough to open up a world that you have never seen in the spectacular scenery that surrounds it. Easily accessed from Interstate 90 and with a seasonal temperature that ranges from 11 to 37 degrees, Wall is a place to visit in winter as well as summer.
The Badlands National Park is a must see on your agenda and just eight miles south of Wall, you will find the Buffalo Gap National Park. This wonderful area has it all for the people that come here - rugged canyons and prairie. The lower prairie lying along the flood plains of the White River is sod covered and dotted with scattered buttes with the upper prairie forming great grasslands. Between them is a great wall and this rugged strip is where Wall got its name.
When you check in to one of the many hotels and motels here .you can dine at one of their terrific restaurants and then head out to explore this wonderful place and its surrounding area. See the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, which interprets the defense used in the cold war or the National Grasslands Visitors Center. Here you will find out all kinds of information on the surrounding area. See the Prairie Homestead, which boasts one in a few of the sod dwellings that are still intact today. Visit Tatanka, where you will see and hear the legendary story of the Bison and see a statue that will leave you astounded at its beauty.
This is a city that will give you what you need in a vacation - lots of room to roam and lots of things to see and do. Wall is waiting for you to come and enjoy what it has to offer, so what are you waiting for?