First time to S.Dakota
From Oklahoma we will leave this Saturday, Sept 15 and travel through Kansas and Nebraska to Badlands National Park in our 32' class C and Jeep tow, just hubby and me plus our dog. We have 12 days and...
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Dave and Deb,
We've been to South Dakota twice and have visited the same sites that you have mentioned.
About DeSmet-if you go into the town you can either pay for a tour or meander through the surveyor's house where the Ingalls spent a winter, the Brewster schoolhouse, where Laura taught her first year as a teacher, which was moved to DeSmet, and a small gift shop. About ten minutes outside of town is the Ingalls family homestead. You have to pay $15 to enter the homestead area. You can also stay there in your rv for the night, no hook-ups, for $30 (I think). It did not take us tons on time to see what we wanted to, so we drove back to Route 90. We did not have to double back for this.
We've been to South Dakota twice and have visited the same sites that you have mentioned.
About DeSmet-if you go into the town you can either pay for a tour or meander through the surveyor's house where the Ingalls spent a winter, the Brewster schoolhouse, where Laura taught her first year as a teacher, which was moved to DeSmet, and a small gift shop. About ten minutes outside of town is the Ingalls family homestead. You have to pay $15 to enter the homestead area. You can also stay there in your rv for the night, no hook-ups, for $30 (I think). It did not take us tons on time to see what we wanted to, so we drove back to Route 90. We did not have to double back for this.
