This page is one small part of Good Sites for Kids!
Here's a page about the local area, home of Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Deadwood, the Black Hills, the Badlands, Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally! - and a few dozen other things, too!
Badlands National Park official site. Lunar scenery and the biggest Oligocene fossil beds in the world.
Black Hills Attractions A clickable list of local tourist attractions. Too many to list here. Also lists the Badlands.
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research has
a fantastic dinosaur museum in Hill City. Small in area but crammed with dino
skeletons including (usually) several T-Rex. Known worldwide, the Institute
sponsored the 100 Years of T-Rex seminar in the summer of 2005, with many big
names in paleo attending. For even more dinos and critters check out the Geology
Museum at the School
of Mines and Technology.
City of Deadwood Home Page in the northern Black Hills sits famous Deadwood.
City of Rapid City, South Dakota Home Page
Custer State Park Huge park and game preserve in the Black Hills has amazing rock formations, lakes, hills, resorts, and 1,500 buffalo! (This is one of only two genetically pure herds of Bison bison in the world!)
Crazy
Horse Memorial Official site. Huge mountain
carving of famed Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse will dwarf Mount Rushmore
when completed.
The
live webcam
is good for day and night viewing (well, it
is when they have night blasting.) The site tells the story of Crazy Horse,
the sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, and the ongoing work on the mountain by the
Ziolkowski family. The Memorial is also a Native American education center
with a fine museum
.
Douglas School District Serving Box Elder and Ellsworth AFB
Ellsworth Air Force Base public site
Jewel Cave National Monument official page. 135+ miles of explored cave (plus 100's of miles unexplored), wonderful crystals. Excellent page on local bats!
Journey Museum "The Journey Museum of Rapid City, SD" is an excellent small museum that covers everything cultural, historical, biological, geological about this town and the Black Hills. Definitely worth visiting while you are in the Rapid City and Black Hills!
Local Weather Courtesy of Wunderground.
Mammoth
Site Located in Hot Springs
in the southern Black Hills, The Mammoth Site is an ancient sinkhole full of
dozens of mammoth skeletons! Click on the menu bar along the top to take the
Virtual Tour and check out the Education Department.
Mount
Rushmore National Memorial
This is the new in 2012 multimedia site from CyArk. It is fantastic. This presentation
starts with a slideshow. Other sections off of the horizontally scrolling main
section cover the Black Hills, Gutzom Borglum, carving the sculpture, preservation,
how CyArk digitally documented the Memorial for posterity, laser scanning, photography,
the Virtual
Tour, videos (including the Tom Brokaw intro that you watch at the
Memorial), and 2D & 3D perspectives. Marvelous job. Our fave is the very
cool Virtual
Tour, showing everywhere you can go. If you cannot visit Rushmore
then this is the way to go! Visualize someone taking the virtual tour while
standing on the same spot!
Mount Rushmore National Monument This is the official Parks Service site. Plenty of information, sections on history, nature and science, areas for kids and for teachers.
Mount Rushmore from the PBS American Experience show. Interactive Flash activites tell the story of the carving and more.
Mount Rushmore - State of South Dakota tourism site. Another site with a good History section, tourist info, links to other attractions.
Museum of Geology, SDSM&T (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology). This great science and engineering school (one of the world's best) has their world-class collection of fossils and minerals online! Their unique Dino Cam lets your watch one of best mosasaur skeletons anywhere while it and a nearby plesiosaur check out the tusks on a Columbian mammoth! (Not your normal scenario.) Read the brag about their thousands of specimens on exhibits!
Oglala
Lakota College A tribally controlled
institution serving the educational needs of the Lakota Oyate, focused on the
Pine Ridge Reservation but with a branch campus in north Rapid City. Click here
to see their Native American resources links.
Pennington County, South Dakota Web Page
Piney's
Black Hills Adventure Help Piney the Pine Cone explore the tourist
attractions of Rapid City and the Black Hills while he hunts for his pine cone
family members! Interactive Flash video has a slide show and a short description
of each attraction. Fun music and action.
Rapid City and Black Hills Convention and Visitors Bureau
Rapid City Journal Local daily newspaper
Rapid
City Public Library Excellent site,
lots of access to sites for kids, research of all kinds, activities, online
catalog, lots more. Go get your library card!
South Dakota Air and Space Museum Located in Box Elder near the main Ellsworth AFB entrance. Features a B-1, B-52D, B-29, many more aircraft.
Sturgis Rally. We like the Rally, really we do, but this site is "for kids." Google "Sturgis" and you'll easily find the best Rally sites.
United Sioux Tribes Lakota Nation sites.
Wind Cave National Park official site. Huge cave, buffalo herd, prairie dogs, fossils. All in the beautiful Black Hills.
Youth and Family Services Featuring Head Start, Child Care, Girls Incorporated, Health Connections, counseling services, and much more. Providing essential services to hundreds of underprivileged kids and their families in western South Dakota.
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