ATTRACTIONS

Amusements

Black Hills Putt-4-Fun
640 South 6th Street • Hot Springs, SD 57747
605-745-7888
Hot Springs' 18-hole miniature golf course is located next to the Budget Host Hills Inn. more... map
Evans Plunge
1145 North River Street • Hot Springs, SD 57747
605-745-5165
Since 1890, this indoor spring-fed pool has been the Black Hills most exciting natural attraction. The "world's largest natural warm water indoor pool," Evans Plunge features indoor and outdoor pools, waterslides, fun tubes, pool games, Tarzan rings, and a full-service health club. more... map

Pioneer Museum in Hot Springs
300 North Chicago Street • Hot Springs, SD 57747
605-745-5147
Open June through September, Monday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Pioneer Museum in Hot Springs is housed in a historical, circa 1881 sandstone school building. Its 25 exhibit areas are filled with over 600 historical pieces of original Fall River County artwork, tapestries, famous prints, and photos. more... map

Mammoth Site
1800 Highway 18 Bypass • Hot Springs, SD 57747
605-745-6017
This is the world's largest Columbian mammoth exhibit and research facility for Pleistocene studies where visitors can view excavators trying to piece together the over 26,000-year mystery of how this area became the finally resting place for large Columbian and woolly mammoths who were trapped in a spring-fed pond. more... map
Wind Cave National Park
26611 U.S. Highway 385 • Hot Springs, SD 57747
605-745-4600
Wind Cave National Park features "one of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, one of the few remaining; ponderosa pine forest and associated wildlife," including buffalo, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes, and prairie dogs. The fourth longest cave in the world and well-known for its display of boxwood, Wind Cave became the first cave anywhere in the world to be designated a national park in 1903. more... map

Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary
12163 Highland Road; P.O. Box 998 • Hot Springs, SD 57747
Located in the Black Hills off Highway 71
605-745-5955, 800-252-6652
Home to America's largest wild horse herd, 12 miles south of Hot Springs, Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary offers 11,000 acres of beautiful canyons, forests and grasslands for American Spanish Mustangs, Kiger and Sulphur Mustangs to roam free year-round. Guided bus tours are available where you can also see ancient Indian petroglyphs, a ceremonial Sundance site and sweat lodges. Reservations should be made in advance. more... map