In western South Dakota, the Black Hills rise abruptly from the Great Plains, where the mountainous West collides with Midwestern prairie. Called Paha Sapa by the Lakota people, the “hills that ...

Southeast South Dakota Surges Ahead of Black Hills in Tourism Revenue LAKE KAMPESKA, S.D. (AP) — As they sat in comfy lawn chairs and sipped cold sodas in a campsite along Lake Kampeska's ...

For East and West Coasters, South Dakota is squarely within flyover country ... and an 1876 gold rush in the Lakota-owned Black Hills created a miner's camp known as Deadwood that lured frontiers ...