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Wall (South Dakota)
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Wall, South Dakota is probably known best to cross-country travellers for its main attraction, Wall Drug. Advertised on gigantic billboards for hundred of miles to the west and east on Highway 90, the gargantuan drug store has put Wall on the nation's map. There are also Wall Drug signs all over the world telling how many miles to Wall Drug.
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Wall is located on Interstate 90 just north of the Badlands of South Dakota and just east of Rapid City.
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Wall Drug, 510 Main Street (main exit off the interstate), Phone: 279-2175. [1] 6:30AM-6PM every day. In 1931 the store's entrepreneurial owners, Ted and Dorothy Hustead, had the brainstorm idea to give away free icewater for passing motorists. They started to put up signs and billboards along the highway with the distance to Wall Drug. These signs have been spread around the world and to extreme polar reaches. It is joked that based solely on the billboards, future archaeologists will probably consider Wall Drug to be the most important building on the North American continent. From this seed of signs and billboards grew the tourist attraction that Wall Drug is today: giftshops, museums, restaurants, and of course the original drug store. Get a bumper sticker while you're there; it's the mark of a true cross-country traveler. Free (includes ice water and bumper sticker).
Wounded Knee Museum
Cactus Cafe & Lounge, 519 Main St., +1 605 279-2561.
The Red Rock Restaurant, 506 Glenn St., +1 605 279-2388.
Best Western Plains Motel, 712 Glenn St., +1 605 279-2145, +1 800 528-1234.
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Black Hills National Forest
Deadwood is possibly America's most storied small town from the wild frontier days.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a short drive away, and so is the even larger Crazy Horse Memorial [2].
Rapid City is a transportation hub for the region. It has a few museums, and plenty of cheap hotels and restaurants (chain and local).
Sturgis, roughly 12 miles to the East of Deadwood, is the home of the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August.
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