Travel SD Blog - South Dakota Affordable Family Vacations

Need an affordable travel adventure before the snow starts to fly?
Check out some of the BEST affordable fall adventures recently named by Travel and Leisure Magazine; biking through South Dakota’s Black Hills being one of them.
Big skies and bison. Experience both as you cycle the Mickelson Trail through the Black Hills National Forest. Expect active wildlife, [...]

You heard it hear first, today, Nov. 2, 2009, is South Dakota’s 120th birthday! WOW! Now if that is not a reason to celebrate, I don’t know what is!
Anyways, South Dakota became a state on Nov. 2, 1889, when President Benjamin Harrison signed the proclamation of admission for both North Dakota and South Dakota.
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“Rooster Rush,” the South Dakota Office of Tourism’s pheasant hunting promotion hit the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis with full force last Sunday.
Everyone attending the game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Baltimore Ravens received fan banners, saw advertising on the scoreboards and drank beverages from orange cups with “Rooster Rush” emblazoned on them.
On [...]

Unseasonably early cold and snowfall has made this year’s South Dakota autumn color viewing a bit unpredictable. As pictured here, colors were great in Spearfish Canyon while they lasted and the Southern Black Hills got into the action with some beautiful yellows along Fall River near Hot Springs. Some places along the Missouri River have [...]