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Attractions near Smithville Township

Worth the trip from Smithville Township: Badlands National Park, 20 mi off

Smithville Township has 12 notable places within 60 miles, among them 3 national park units. Roughly 1.1M visitors a year make it to Badlands National Park. Further afield lies Mount Rushmore National Memorial, at 54 mi.

Attractions nearby
12
within 60 miles
The big one
54 mi
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
National park units
3
parks & monuments
Big draws
2
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Memorial · 54 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

The layout

On the map, most of the 5 sit to the west.

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

Everything nearby

Everything to see

Everything here is within 60 miles, 12 places in all.

Black Elk Peak

Mountain · 59 mi west · 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

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Smithville Township → · Smithville Township’s history →

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

Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 · Minuteman Missile National Historic Site: Spencer, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Black Hills Central Railroad: Eric Friedebach, CC BY 3.0 · Dinosaur Park: Minnesota Jones at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Rushmore Plaza Civic Center: Mr. Satterly, WTFPL · 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 · The Journey Museum and Gardens: Tbennert, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lincoln Borglum Museum: National Park Service, Public domain

Know a spot visitors miss?Locals know the overlook without the crowds and the diner the tour buses skip.
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