South Dakota

All the latest articles about South Dakota

Places we want to go. Things we want to do.

12/15/25

Lots of people are taking this week to look back at some of their favorite adventures from the past year. And we will too. But let’s start the week with a round-up of some of the “want” activities and destinations we’ve been keeping in our inbox. A while back we spent 10 days in South →

Holidays

On the road: Deadwood and Wall Drug

10/26/15

Two South Dakota spots I recently visited – Deadwood and Wall Drug – face with the classic tourism challenge: how to get people to come visit. And then visit again. Here’s a slightly edited version of the story I put together for CNBC: Since its Gold Rush-era founding in 1876, the South Dakota frontier town →

Road Trip

Souvenir Sunday at the Crazy Horse Memorial

10/04/15

The Crazy Horse Memorial, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is a giant mountain carving begun in 1948 by Korczak Ziolkowski as a tribute to the Lakota leader. Here’s what Ziolkowski had in mind: Ziolkowski’s plan was to create a carving 641 feet long and 563 feet high, but that’s a really big project →

Greetings from Wall Drug

09/23/15

If you’re driving west and your route takes you through South Dakota on I-90, a stop at Wall Drug is a must. For the free ice water, of course: But also for the jackalope: And the 5-cent coffee: →