by sethtupper | Mar 15, 2021 | Outdoor Activities
The lifeblood of South Dakota’s largest city Visit Falls Park in the city of Sioux Falls on any reasonably nice day, and you’re likely to see people standing and looking at the Falls of the Big Sioux River. They climb around on the rocky outcrops of...
by sethtupper | Mar 15, 2021 | Attractions
Discovering a modern city’s ancient inhabitants Most written histories will tell you that the area now known as Mitchell, S.D., was first settled in the 1870s by enterprising white settlers who were hoping to get in the path of the railroad’s westward...
by sethtupper | Mar 15, 2021 | Attractions
Follow the signs to fun … and free ice water It was 1936. Druggist Ted Hustead owned a struggling store in the town of Wall, South Dakota. The Great Depression gripped the nation, and the Dust Bowl made things doubly bad on the high plains. It’s doubtful...
by sethtupper | Mar 15, 2021 | Attractions
 Agricultural art on a grand scale If you were to stop tourists and ask for their impressions as they leave The World’s Only Corn Palace in Mitchell, it would not be uncommon to hear “It’s just a gym with corn on it†from one visitor and “It’s...
by sethtupper | Mar 15, 2021 | Black Hills, Outdoor Activities
I recently stayed in a rental cabin with some members of my family in the Black Hills. The cabin was in the Terry Peak area in the Northern Hills, just north of the Wharf Mine. The cabin was perched on a high point in the hills. Near the cabin was a narrow dirt/gravel...
