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the handle on south dakota

  • Mount Rushmore, featuring the carved faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. 

  • Located in Mitchell, the Corn Palace is a building decorated annually with murals made from corn and other grains.

  • The town of Deadwood was a famous Old West town where Wild Bill Hickok was killed. 

  • Near Belle Fourche, there’s a marker designating the “Geographic Center of the Nation” (including all 50 states). 

  • The Crazy Horse Memorial, located in the Black Hills, is an enormous, ongoing mountain carving dedicated to the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse.

  •  The Badlands are rich in dinosaur fossils. The town of Faith is where the most complete T. rex skeleton, named “Sue,” was discovered in 1990.

  • SD hosts the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, one of the largest motorcycle events in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of bikers.

  • The Mammoth Site is an active archaeological dig where the remains of over 60 mammoths have been found. 

  • Custer State Park has one of the largest publicly owned bison herds in the world. 

  • Wall Drug, located in the town of Wall, is a huge tourist stop famous for its free ice water, 5-cent coffee, and quirky roadside signs. 

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