Address: Box 5, Interior, South Dakota 57750 (eight miles south off 1-90 at exit 131 on the South Dakota Loop 240)
Telephone: 605—433—5460; fax: 605—433—5560
You will feel like you've made a trip to the moon when visiting this landscape of strange and eerie eroded buttes, ridges, and canyons. Bison, pronghorn, mule deer, prairie dogs, and coyotes drift across the old homesteads and hunting grounds of the Sioux Indians. The ranger-led children's programs and fossil trails are worth joining, as the park has preserved 37- to 23-million-year-old fossils of extinct animals as well as sites important to Indian history.
Season: May through mid-October.
Accommodations: These twenty-four air-conditioned knotty pine cabins are operated by the Ogala Sioux tribe.
Special Features: The central dining room features Sioux Indian fry bread, buffalo burgers, and Indian tacos made with buffalo meat. The lodge shop sells authentic Indian crafts.
Options: Cabin with two double beds, shower, and air-conditioning for two persons or more. Two connecting bedrooms for three or four people.
Spots, activities and attractions: This is a convenient stopover for trips to the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore (114 miles away) or Wind Cave National Park (161 miles away).
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