# @travelsouthdakota on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1ebo5EWpU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35769402-travelsouthdakota-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-15T15:53:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Travel South Dakota (@travelsouthdakota) — https://gondola.cc/travelsouthdakota

## Caption

Here’s your ultimate fossil adventure guide across South Dakota! 

📍themammothsite in Hot Springs is an active paleontological dig inside a prehistoric sinkhole, where the remains of mammoths (and other fauna) have been discovered

📍See sea monsters and dinosaurs at the Museum of Geology in visitrapidcity

📍Stand in the heart of dinosaur country at the Hell Creek Museum in Belle Fourche 🦖

📍Discover local fossils and dinosaur bones (with some areas allowing visitors to touch!) at the Grand River Museum in Lemmon 🦬

📍Kids can dig into history at the Dino Dig exhibit found at prairieplaysd Children’s Museum in Brookings

📍Walk through BadlandsNPS and watch park paleontologists perform the amazing work of fossil preparation (the Fossil Preparation Lab is typically open from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, seven days a week, from the second week in June through the third week in September)

#hifromsd #NationalFossilDay #FamilyTravel

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hifromsd, nationalfossilday, familytravel

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