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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
National Park
Category: Southwestern National Park in South Dakota
Description of this South Dakota Attraction: "Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction." President Eisenhower, January 1961
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is one of the nation's newest national park areas. It was created to illustrate the history and significance of the Cold War, the arms race, and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development. The National Park Service is currently involved in the planning process to determine the future of this site. We encourage you to contact us with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Minuteman Missile NHS consists of two significant cold War sites, a Launch Control Facility (Delta-01) and a missil silo complex (Delta-09). The facilities represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles of southwestern South Dakota.
Although not yet fully operational, limited tours of the site are schelduled through September 6, 2004 (Labor Day). Tours are by reservation only, are approximately two hours in length, and are limited to six people (see Plan Your Visit). For more information, call the Minuteman Missile NHS Project Office at 605-433-5552 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. MDT, Monday-Friday.
Last updated 8-2004.
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Missouri National Recreational River
National Park
Category: Yankton National Park in South Dakota
Description of this South Dakota Attraction: There was a time there was just the river. Then people came. People and the river have been connected ever since. And now it's your turn.
Missouri National Recreational River offers natural beauty: the forested buff-colored chalkstone bluffs to gently rolling range bottomland; the brilliant white of migrating pelicans to the rich blues of prairie asters; the soaring majesty of resident bald eagles to fleeting glimpses of the wily red fox. It offers an exciting past for your enjoyment and enrichment, from Plains Indian tribes to Lewis and Clark to steamboat captains such as Grant Marsh. Here, you can experience the dynamic character of the river's ever-changing nature, with its islands, shifting sandbars, sloughs, and treacherous, deadly snags.
Both the upper 39-mile reach and the lower 59-mile reach along the Nebraska-South Dakota border combine to form one of few sections of this once vast ecosystem along the "Big Muddy" that remains in a relatively natural state.
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