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Attractions near Rapid City

From Dinosaur Park on: Rapid City’s list

Each year, some 1.9M people go to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. 3 places to visit are mapped inside Rapid City, with 16 more within 40 miles. They include 4 museums, 2 national parks and 2 ski areas. For a full day, there is Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, 47 mi away.

Attractions nearby
20
within 60 miles
The big one
16 mi
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
National park units
4
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Terry Peak Ski Area
Big draws
3
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Memorial · 16 mi southwest

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Mountain in South Dakota featuring a sculpture of four US presidents.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Places on the map

Out of town, most of the 16 are to the southwest.

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Orange: Rapid City. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Full list of places

In town there are 3, and the list adds 17 more within 60 miles.

Black Elk Peak

Mountain · 21 mi southwest · read 47K times a year on Wikipedia

Tallest mountain in the US state of South Dakota, and the tallest mountain in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.

Towns near it → · Wikipedia

The places inside Rapid City lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Rapid City → · Rapid City’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Dinosaur Park: Minnesota Jones at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Rushmore Plaza Civic Center: Mr. Satterly, WTFPL · The Journey Museum and Gardens: Tbennert, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Crazy Horse Memorial: Jeffreylcooke, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Badlands National Park: Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Black Elk Peak: BHrock at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Custer State Park: Guimir, Public domain · Wind Cave National Park: USGS/USGov, Public domain · Mammoth Site, Hot Springs: Jeff the quiet, CC0 · Black Hills National Forest: Vocaro at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bedrock City: Tbennert, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Black Hills Central Railroad: Eric Friedebach, CC BY 3.0 · South Dakota Air and Space Museum: User:Jaydec, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Reptile Gardens: Mark Goebel from Taos, New Mexico, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Lincoln Borglum Museum: National Park Service, Public domain

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