Rapid City South Dakota Attractions

Amusements

• Circle B Ranch Chuckwagon & Cowboy Music Show
  22735 Highway 385 • Rapid City, SD 57702
  605-348-7358
  Visitors of Circle B Ranch can enjoy riding horses, shooting wax pistols, watching western-style... more...  map

• Dinosaur Park
  940 Skyline Drive • Rapid City, SD 57701
  605-343-8687
  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Dinosaur Park features towering life-size... more...  map

• Flags & Wheels
  405 12th Street • Rapid City, SD 57701
  605-341-2186
  Housed in a 47,000 square foot building near downtown Rapid City, Flags & Wheels is "the only... more...

• Old MacDonald's Petting Farm
  23691 Busted Five Court • Rapid City, SD 57702
  9 Miles South of Rapid City on Highway 16
  605-737-4815
  Over 100 friendly farm animals in a clean, relaxed, hands-on environment, including cows, horses,... more...  map

• Putz n Glo
  23694 Strato Rim Road (Highway 16) • Rapid City, SD 57702
  Located 2 Miles South of Bear Country
  605-716-1230
  The whole family can enjoy indoor black light miniature golf, Miner's Maze, gemstone panning, the... more...  map

• Rushmore Waterslide Park
  1715 Catron Boulevard • Rapid City, SD 57701
  605-348-8962
  Situated on the road to Mount Rushmore, this 17-acre waterslide park contains several slides, a... more...  map

Historic Homes & Buildings

• Chapel in the Hills
  3788 Chapel Lane • Rapid City, SD 57702
  605-343-9426 (Visitor Center/Gift Shop)
  A special ministry of the South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA),... more...  map

Museums & Galleries

• Children's Science Center
  515 West Boulevard • Rapid City, SD 57702
  605-394-6996
  This museum offers a variety of exhibits and activities to introduce children to the many areas of... more...  map

• Dahl Fine Arts Center
  713 Seventh Street • Rapid City, SD 57701
  605-394-4101
  Among the art on display at this fine arts center is a one-hundred-eighty-foot canvas with an oil... more...  map

• Journey Museum
  222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701
  605-394-6923
  Located two blocks east of the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, this unique museum combines exhibits... more...  map

• Museum of Geology
  501 East St. Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701
  South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
  605-394-2467
  With the mission "to collect, conserve, curate, interpret, exhibit and disseminate knowledge of... more...  map

• South Dakota Air and Space Museum
  2890 Davis Drive • Rapid City, SD 57719
  Ellsworth Air Force Base
  605-385-5188
  This museum features displays of historic bombers, fighter planes, and more.  more...  map

National Parks & Natural Wonders

• Badlands National Park
  25216 Ben Reifel Road • Rapid City, SD 57750
  Located 67 Miles East-Southeast in Interior
  605-433-5361
  More than 800 bison graze in the Badlands National Park, which is made up of "244,000 acres of... more...  map

• Black Hills Caverns
  2600 Cavern Road • Rapid City, SD 57702
  Four miles west of Rapid City on Highway 44
  605-343-0542
  This natural cavern features stalactites, stalagmites, and a great variety of cave formations, with... more...  map

• Cosmos of the Black Hills
  4021 West Chicago • Rapid City, SD 57702
  16 miles south of Rapid City on Highway 16
  605-343-9802
  This location offers a chance to step through the looking glass into a world where the very laws of... more...  map

• Crystal Cave Park
  7770 Cave Road • Rapid City, SD 57702
  605-342-8008
  This beautiful cavern offers one of the least strenuous tours of its type in the area that is... more...  map

• Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns
  13745 South Highway 16 • Rapid City, SD 57701
  9 Miles South of Rapid City in Rockerville Gulch
  605-342-2777
  Filled with subterranean, crystalline passages in Paha Sapa limestone, this site offers 45-minute... more...

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

• Bear Country U.S.A.
  13820 South Highway 16 • Rapid City, SD 57701
  Rapid City
  605-343-2290
  This family owned, and operated drive-through wildlife park was established in 1972, and offers a... more...  map

• Reptile Gardens
  8955 South Highway 16 • Rapid City, SD 57709
  Six miles south of Rapid City
  605-342-5873
  There are four shows per day, providing entertainment as well as education, at this reptile center... more...

• Storybook Island
  1301 Sheridan Lake Road • Rapid City, SD 57702
  605-342-6357
  This fairytale land features live animals, depictions of scenes from one hundred twenty eight... more...  map