Ready to start planning a trip to South Dakota? West of the Missouri River dividing the state, you'll find the Black Hills, ...

Home to the Black Hills, the Badlands and the sprawling prairies of the Great Plains, South Dakota is a state rich in scenery and features monuments and dedications to the likes of everyone from Crazy ...

When people think of South Dakota tourism, they often think of the Black Hills. But the Sioux Falls metro area is giving the West River gem a run for its money. In 2022, 14.4 million visitors in South ...

There are eight developed hiking trails in Badlands National Park and the rest of the park has an Open Hike Policy giving you access to all 244,000 acres. All of the developed trails in Badlands ...

We had come, mistakenly, for the wildflowers. We'd heard that in spring, South Dakota's Badlands erupted in blooms. Though we identified some provocative species—woolly locoweed, meadow death camas, ...