We had a blast road tripping from Sioux Falls to Badlands and made a bunch of fun stops along the way! Want to break up the drive a bit? We suggest stopping at:
The sculpture park is home of to over 50 sculptures, all designed by Wayne Porter, who builds them on instinct vs. diagrams and equations, which is wild! The sculptures vary in size, with the largest being a huge horse and a massive 60ft bull head that you can walk into.
It cost $10 and is worth it to see the art and support the artist! Also a dog friendly to walk around with.
The name says it all! This is the world’s only corn palace! But really, it’s an elaborate palatial building that is decorated every year with naturally colored corn and other grains and native grasses to make it “The agricultural show-place of the world.” The palace gets 500,000 visitors a year and inside there is a gift shop and some popcorns to eat.
We wanted to stop for some cold coffee and milkshakes, we’d recommend checking it out there!
This is a 50-foot-tall, stainless steel statue that honors and represents the courage, perseverance and wisdom of the Lakota and Dakota culture in South Dakota. The statue wears a dress patterned after a two-hide Native dress and she is holding a quilt with 128 stainless steel blue diamonds that flutter in the wind and glisten in the sun. And at night, there are LED lights that make the diamond shapes flow in the sky! (I wish I had seen it during night time).
Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur
This is more of something to just be aware of as you drive down I-90. Located at the 1880 Town is the super cool statue of a skeleton walking a dinosaur. It’s hard to get a good photo from the road. We want to come back someday to check out 1880 Town!
