The Honey Bee is the Official State Insect of South Dakota.
Custer State Park is home to a herd of 1,500 free-roaming bison. Bison can weigh as much as 2,000 pounds. Historically, the bison played an essential role in the lives of the Lakota (Sioux), who relied on the “tatanka” for food, clothing and shelter.
The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs contains the largest concentration of Columbian and woolly mammoth bones discovered in their primary context in the world! This National Natural Landmark is the only in-situ (bones left as found) display of fossil mammoths in America. Faith is famous to paleontologists. Several Hadrosaur, Edmontosaurus annectens were excavated on a ranch north of Faith and one of the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex was excavated nearby
Motorcycles
Sturgis is home of the annual Black Hills Classic Motorcycle Rally.
Mount Rushmore
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial is a huge mountain sculpture of four US Presidents, located near Keystone in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore in 1927. Creation of the Shrine to Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million, though it's now deemed priceless.
Native American
South Dakota is the home of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribes, which make up the Sioux Nation.
Pheasant
The Ring-necked Pheasant is the Official State Bird of South Dakota.
Veterans Honored
Black Hills National Cemetery "The Arlington of the West" is a final resting place of our nation's veterans. The Flaming Fountain on South Dakota State Capitol Lake is fed by an artesian well with natural gas content so high that it can be lit. The fountain glows perpetually as a memorial to all veterans.
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