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Ingalls Homestead

Drive a covered wagon across the prairie and try pioneer chores on the Ingalls family's homestead land.

20812 Homestead Road · De Smet, SD

About Ingalls Homestead

Ingalls Homestead sits on the prairie land near De Smet that Laura Ingalls Wilder's family homesteaded, and it is run as a hands-on living history site. A covered wagon ride, where every visitor gets a turn driving the team, carries you to a one-room schoolhouse. Back at the exhibits you can twist hay and grind wheat as in The Long Winter, wash clothes on a washboard, and make a corncob doll or a jump rope to take home. Most families spend half a day.

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