The White River Visitor Center is located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the South Unit of Badlands National Park. The National Park Service co-manages the South Unit with the Oglala Lakota Tribe in order to protect and interpret Lakota heritage and to provide information about the cultural significance of Badlands National Park. Rangers at the center discuss Lakota heritage with visitors and offer impromptu historical and cultural talks and programs, including the significance of the Badlands and treaties with the Lakota. The detailed museum exhibits also depict the area’s rich and complex history.
The South Unit of the park is home to some of the region’s most valued natural resources. The park’s 244,000 acres feature spectacular scenery, including table mesas offering sweeping panoramas, deep canyons, washes, ravines and foreboding walls. Bison, bighorn sheep, deer, antelope, prairie dogs and black-footed ferrets make their homes along massive expanses of mixed-grass prairie.
The White River Visitor Center offers a staffed information desk, maps, exhibits, restrooms, picnic tables, water and visitors can get their NPS passport stamped. This visitor center is only open in summer.
7900 Lakota Prairie Drive Kyle, SD 57752
Distance: 16.06 mi (straight line)
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Manderson-White Horse Creek, SD, USA
Distance: 20.66 mi (straight line)
Wounded Knee Memorial, Wounded Knee, SD, USA
Distance: 26.47 mi (straight line)
The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School, Mission Drive, Pine Ridge, SD, USA
Distance: 30.28 mi (straight line)
112 Casino Dr, Oglala, SD 57764, USA
Distance: 33.68 mi (straight line)
Galleries and Venues Food and Drinks Tribal Experiences Shopping Viewpoints
Pow Wow Grounds, Pine Ridge, SD, USA
Distance: 33.98 mi (straight line)
Oglala Lakota Living History Village, South Dakota 240, Philip, SD, USA
Distance: 37.07 mi (straight line)
Museums and Interpretive Centers Guided Tours Tribal Experiences
The Mammoth Site, U.S. 18 Bypass, Hot Springs, SD, USA
Distance: 49.86 mi (straight line)
Black Hills Powwow
Distance: 53.66 mi (straight line)
105 Akicita St, St Francis, SD 57572, USA
Distance: 84.96 mi (straight line)
Sinte Gleska University, Antelope Lake Circle, Mission, SD, USA
Distance: 94.18 mi (straight line)
Sinte Gleska University, Antelope Lake Circle, Mission, SD, USA
Distance: 94.18 mi (straight line)
Galleries and Venues Museums and Interpretive Centers Tribal Experiences
Rosebud Casino, 30421 U.S. 83, Valentine, Nebraska, USA
Distance: 102.92 mi (straight line)
Iron Lightning, SD, USA
Distance: 119.64 mi (straight line)
Ubetcha Wateca, Main Street, Eagle Butte, SD, USA
Distance: 120.02 mi (straight line)
Number Nine Steakhouse, Main Street, Eagle Butte, SD, USA
Distance: 120.15 mi (straight line)
Verendrye Monument, Verendrye Drive, Fort Pierre, SD, USA
Distance: 120.42 mi (straight line)
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