Travel in the Mt. Rushmore State
George Everette “Bud” Day’s 13-foot-tall bronze sculpture greets guests at the Sioux Gateway Airport/Brigadier General Bud Day Field entrance. Who was Bud Day? George Everette “Bud” Day of Siouxland is the only person to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross, the Air Force’s highest honors. With more than 70 decorations, Day is […]
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A 100-foot-high sandstone obelisk perched on a Siouxland bluff honors Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die. He died on August 20, 1804, likely from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix, in present-day Sioux City, Iowa. At 21, he was one of the youngest expedition members. Several Siouxland locations
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The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site stands where the Great Plains meets the Black Hills. For 44 years, the United States-led Free World and the Soviet Union’s Communist Bloc aimed nuclear missiles at each other. The nuclear deterrence was known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Never was an acronym more appropriate. The once-secret facilities are
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Storybook Land in Aberdeen, South Dakota, is full of nostalgic characters from nursery rhymes and fairy tales. The amusement park is a delightful place to bring your children or grandchildren, but it’s also fun for adults to visit without little ones. Interpretive signs listing the rhymes accompany some of the characters in the park. However,
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Top things to do around Devils Tower in the Black Hills Devils Tower is the icon of the Northern Black Hills. Even though the national monument is across the Wyoming state line, touring the Black Hills without seeing Devils Tower is like eating pizza without cheese — or mashed potatoes without gravy. The drive from
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From Rapid City to Mt. Rushmore and beyond When you say South Dakota, what comes to mind as the state’s most famous attraction? Mt. Rushmore, of course. The Four Faces are even displayed on South Dakota’s license plates. But South Dakota’s most famous attraction is only the start of the numerous terrific attractions surrounding Rapid
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