Museums
Family FavoriteChildren's Museum of South Dakota
Under $25A 44,000 square foot hands-on children's museum in Brookings with a full-size animatronic T. rex.
AttractionsFamily FavoriteHistory Buff
Ingalls Homestead
Ingalls Homestead is an attraction in De Smet, SD, part of the Sioux Falls and Brookings guide. Cost: under $25. Full activities late May to early September, fewer in September, grounds only in October, closed in winter.
20812 Homestead Road · De Smet, SD
Why you should go…
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.
- #laura ingalls wilder
- #living history
- #covered wagon ride
- #little house on the prairie
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