South Dakota Road Trip: 5 Days 200 Miles

[Music] welcome to the once in a lifetime series these long-form videos this one's about South Dakota about a 220 Mile Stretch we're gonna take over five days sit back and enjoy the ride the journey starts right now hey all rusty RV tv welcome check it out we're in Pierre South Dakota this is the South Dakota State Capitol and it's a Sunday morning and guess what I checked online it's open seven days a week we can actually go inside we're a bit early yet I thought I'd walk around the outside four years ago I was here in actually five five years ago when I had that old gray motorhome old spirit and uh couldn't get in it it was during the weekday couldn't park anywhere it didn't work out so guess what perfect timing look at this building I love going in these old capitals this one's supposed to be really cool anyway let's go walk around [Music] this uh Governor she's pretty famous see her on the TV all the time for South Dakota this is where they do their business I like the ones with the big domes you can go inside and look up at them they're the artwork in these places are usually just incredible all right I spotted a building across the street we'll go check that thing out looks like some kind of war memorial or something flowers All In Bloom in summertime in South Dakota Blue Sky perfect weather that fire smoke keeps rolling in and out supposed to be hot too we absolutely have this place to ourselves I couldn't be nicer wow now some of these buildings are not open today that's okay look at the old statue say World War One Leslie Jensen very well done there's a big Bell over here too wow look at this old timer huh been here a long long time here it ring there's Parts I don't know a lot about this you know uh last time I was here I stayed at a campground it's way up on the hill you could oversee the whole town maybe we'll try to get there tonight cool all right well what do you say Let's uh cruise over see if we can't get in that big building over across the street hear all the birds chirping in the trees it gets cold here in the winter guaranteed South Dakota State Capitol impressive very impressive looking a lot of these were built in the late 1800s or 19 early 1900s let's walk up like we know what we're doing yeah no one's here this is perfect figure out how to get in there what do we got here wow a time capsule 20 75. July 4th well I don't know if I'll be around for that one there you go We the People United States nice all right I think I have to go around the back side to get in here not sure I'll figure it out yep we gotta go on the back side of the building I'm gonna switch uh parking places go around the back plus I spotted another big statue thing up here I want to try to get a picture of so we'll be in there in a minute right up here looks like horses or something we gotta check it cool little Pond here Lake all right let's check this fighting stallion Memorial 1994. look at this wow the history here so fast oh my goodness look how that Ivy's growing over this pretty powerful statue huh your names memorials on there all right well let's head around back to the building see we can't get in all right I parked out back here this looks like the entrance probably gotta go through security or something most capitals do I've been to quite a few of them through the years all right let's see what we get into all right signed in the guestbook really cool security guard very informative said wander around take all the pictures I want gotta go up these stairs here thank you [Music] that Echoes these places make it cool wow look at the white marble I guess huh oh look how bright huh you know a lot of these capitals are so dark wow got the Gold Leaf color on the all the pillars the guard security guard said they've been working on this for quite a while some of these areas are under construction I'm the only one in here foreign look straight up at the Dome my goodness that'll make you dizzy huh all the paintings I'll be darn beautiful well we say we'll just wander around a little bit the sculptures more stairs to climb let's do it see what we got up here normally they got Senate chambers and uh supreme court maybe wow this place what architecture oh look an elevator yeah stairs are more fun with the echo like a big kid there you can really see the Dome huh as I go up there and say hey change that light bulb up there wouldn't you okay wow private Chambers for all the politicians cool drinking fountain I wonder when this thing was built it had to be 19. okay everyone quiet yeah they're in session no one's here all the deals they cut when you're a politician it's nothing but negotiation huh thank you wow just I don't know I keep saying it but it's as magnificent I've never seen one with this white color like this if you get a chance oh my goodness stop here get you some pictures pal what does cruise each side of the Dome here and you walk all the way around it see more of the design got another fountain on this side was it House of Representatives and Senate [Music] what do we got up here all the years prior politicians that served way back all their pitchers cool well this place is pretty impressive I'll tell you that this artwork everywhere and if you get a chance come in here on a Sunday look at this no one's here perfect all right well they got my vote see what's down here what I missed much easier going down I could use an elevator but I like that noise the big echoing sound imagine when this place is full of everyone it's all the noise of the heroin talking okay what do we got down here is the lower level looks like a little gift shop ooh what do we have here looks like some hallways oh I see paintings gotta check them there you go past governors probably get your portrait painted huh some of those date way back another drinking fountain what do we have here oh Governor's wives all their stuff it's like replicas dresses they wore very different events their pictures I'll be darn here you go looks like judges very their Supreme Court thank you all their portraits well it looks like we're getting down near the end security guard also told me there's a big Memorial outside near that Lake got a check out too we'll do that well very impressive South Dakota state capitol here okay well let's head on outside I'll try to find that other Memorial he was telling me about they got a brochure and map they'll give you two what's in there 1910. okay that's when it was built there's all the old pictures of it being constructed wow I think this is a level I came in on should be no more stairs foreign out [Music] made it okay let's go find that outside Memorial look they got flowers out here too they have parking lot wide open had no trouble parking this here foreign Patriots I hear a fountain going combat wounded South Dakota knows how to take care of their vets that's for sure oh wow look at this he was right there's a little fountain huh all the flags the branches of the service look at this go huh very fitting it's like a memorial wall here with all the names these statues are so lifelike look at that the detail that goes into this look at all the the ones down here they're salute it's kind of cool how that fountain that water goes right back down I bet this thing really lights up at night how fitting huh all the branches of service represented foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I am so glad I came down here I almost was gonna skip this one but when I seen it was open on a Sunday I said perfect because I really didn't want to come down here in a weekday because of parking that's all flaming fountain look at that eagle wow well what do we have here got looks like three more memorials see what they are for it's like for law enforcement firefighters First Responders nice very good very well done well head back over to the van we're going to keep on trucking I highly recommend coming here oh my goodness if you get a chance come check out the South Dakota State Capitol Sundays is perfect no traffic we're heading out of here I'm going to go find that Campground we're going to spend the night here Let's cross the Big River Missouri River it's called Uh Fort Pierre in the campground name was Riverview I believe we'll find it actually there's some cool historic buildings over here and uh see what else we can find nice and warm blue skies low hazy not bad wouldn't that State Capitol building just as cool as it could be I was extremely impressed with that all that white marble in there and all that that was really something all right this looks like Motel row here got a bunch of little shops I guess this would be considered what main the main drag through here oh goodness look at all that hay in that trailer wow that's a load and a half on that thing well cattle and horses and ranches all over South Dakota it's huge gonna be a hot one today too all right River should be right up here we're crossing the mighty Missouri River flows a long ways through a lot of different states looks like they're doing some work on it too a lot of the Lewis and Clark folklore and histories all in this area too yeah some big cranes and those barges down here probably doing uh work on the bridge all right we're almost up here to Fort Pierre way off in the distance at hill top of that nose where that Campground is Riverview RV Park and Campground and what a view I stayed there five years ago well it looks like we're entering yep here it is Fort Pierre supposed to be a historic downtown district we'll find that do a drive-through before we head up to the RV Park old train depot there a lot of this stuff they turned into museums see where that ice cream cone sign is that's where we turn to go up to the RV Park but I believe right up here to the left is that little Historic downtown district let's do this let's do a quick drive through and then we'll go up to the park yeah this whole area in here this is where French settlers came in and uh fur Trappers and Traders and because it's along the Missouri River Lewis and Clark I'm sure them two guys sure got around good for canoe and some horses oh look at the old buildings wow this must be it here as the river Straight Ahead Missouri River can you imagine back in the day uh to go back in time for a day huh looks like a couple of them are little shops not too many cars down here okay well this looks like the old town historic town then we get turned around here there's the mighty Missouri how would you like to live in a house right here like right there okay well let's go out find that Campground I need to take a break from driving been doing quite a bit of it yeah it's amazing how these old buildings stay in the test of time of course you know they've been restored but still it's a lot of its original structure pretty cool okay see that ice cream cone sign there always remember that if you come here and you will once wait you see the view this place has up here I remember it from last time it's pretty spectacular and it's kind of weird coming up here you zigzag through this residential area and way up top is the RV Park that building Straight Ahead that's a rodeo Hall of Fame Museum I don't think it's open right now get a couple pictures of it it's called Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center South Dakota they got these statues I've seen pictures of this online it's not open right now it's got weird hours I'll check another time when they're open but definitely want to get pictures of these uh statues here can you imagine the history there he is Casey Tibbs old time Rodeo champion rodeos ranches farming everything's huge in South Dakota pretty cool I don't think I'd last on a team horse let alone a wild one like that my goodness I've been to a couple rodeos they're extremely entertaining what's this one Johnny Smith Memorial Sculpture okay I guess you got to know all this stuff wow look at that statue very fitting there's another Memorial across the road we gotta stop and check that out too All Right Moving On not sure which this one is it's got flags around it I don't remember it from last time but we gotta stop plus check out the view from up here of the RV park it's even better you can look way down on the entire town up here the capital in the mighty Missouri River here it is here I don't know what it is so let's stop check it out thank you wow look at this back in 1743 two Frenchmen claimed as land with a lead tablet they buried it in the name of France and it was found in 1913 right here huh that's why it's called Pierre huh National Historic Landmark who knew huh wow okay probably fur Traders or Lewis and Clark them two guys in their canoe what's this translation of the okay this is what they buried and they made a replica of it they actually found this here to claim this land in the name of France huh pretty cool what we got here more about the Explorers I'll be darned never knew that one [Music] and this is more about the same thing I'll have to read that later I'm going to look that up online huh all right let's go find that RV part 1743 I can't even wrap my head around that one what it would look like here then all right we're climbing should be right up top of this hill last time I was here I had that old gray motorhome called spirit that rebuild I did that was a clear back and 2015. quite a while ago should be right up here yep kind of at the end of the town here here it is Riverview they were working on this place too the last time I was here really expanding it I stayed up here on the top side but when I called earlier the lady said drive down to the bottom section supposed to have a much better view but look at this place this is an RV Park full hookups and here's going to be your view from up here look at this too bad it's smoky wow look at all the sight they're full pretty good they're probably seasonal might want to check their website looks like they've planted little trees here well let's do a loop around the park and then I'll get checked in yeah they got a lot of rigs here oh man look at that view right off the edge low benches there you can sit on well I got a premium site with a view wait till you see the view Riverview RV Park it was like 35.36 dollars something like that check it out right there love it we need a break from the road for a day or so end up a little picnic table right down there there's the state capitol it's kind of hard to make out but what have you they named it well Riverview overlooking the Missouri perfect well glad I came up here what a view from Riverview RV Park right here in Pierre South Dakota nice little park looks like they got about at least 40 sites plus the ones up top [Music] foreign [Music] to tell but you can see the capitol Dome right out over there there's a downtown area we just drove to you know Pierre's not that big I don't know what the population is Maybe twenty thousand Thirty but over there is where the capital is and all the Town stores straight down below us that's Fort Pierre on this side of the river pretty cool should have brought my fishing pole huh well gonna camp out tonight tomorrow we're back on the road this is I-90 uh we're gonna exit right up here had a great stay at Riverview we're 54 miles from Pier state capital one net Epic that Marvel style Capital Riverview RV all that okay this exit 192. Murdo South Dakota and guess what it's got this Pioneer Auto Museum this thing's been on TV it was on that uh pickers American Pickers program and it has I guess just a world-class Auto everything Museum we're gonna go check it out like right now I was uh told about this that the Riverview RV park where I stayed up in Pierre they go you got to stop here because I asked them hey what's good to see around here here it is on the left this place supposed to be massive so let me find a place to park and we're gonna go check this thing out cool [Applause] Pioneer Auto Big Show established in 1954. cool look at the size of this place look at all the big signs Big Show my goodness big variety show the General Lee look at that Dukes of Hazzard oh man look at this thing need a water fountain ah now that is funny my goodness all right well let's head on in there's that van from the TV show says open let's go on in we're doing how about you thank you yes sir how are you all right we're in look at the old Oldsmobile I guess there's many many buildings here so might need to pack a lunch oh boy wow here we go I love these places you're recording on that yeah [Music] nice thank you all right well there you go that guy's a character oh man look a baby carriage with the old car look at the signage oh man 1952. the thing in the wind is actually an air conditioner I know what that is got the wood trim on a car oh my goodness if you're a car buff come to Murdo look at that thing South Dakota James Dean you know it's hot out it's not bad in here they got fans going oh a wooden cart look at this an absolute wooden car oh one it's got steering wheel oh my good it's got a real engine in it look at that geez Smokey and the Bandit motorcycle I mean look at that signage thermometers gas pump little car there that's one that was at the front opens up huh phone booth Hugo parts and service man talk about a collector goodness oh here we go look at this you need a pipe look at all the pipes dishes antiques my goodness how could you ever keep track of all this stuff like scale oh Carnival type stuff scales old time slot machine look at all the toy cars toy everything whether it was Tonka isn't that what they called those Tonka toys tools hang on the wall look at the lawnmower old time snowmobile I mean wherever they had space they stuffed something in there hung it on a wall good sorry I keep saying that but I'm overwhelmed here just trying to look at this stuff what do you record first what do you show it's endless I wonder if they heat these built I wonder if well they gotta have it open year round more toy stuff a little tanker toys tanker truck toy foosball pinball hmm you could spend a week in here look at the front end of an old Volkswagen Ham's beer behind it oh look at the carnival mirrors there you go oops my head's missing or something there I'm upside down oh man Minnie Mouse this is beyond a collection this is somebody's dream and passion lifetime a lot of these pictures are autographed to the owner of the police [Music] we're still in the first building there's more buildings that go through you'd need a team of people to keep track of this stuff look at the old Plymouth with a spoiler on the back Barney Fife hey Barney hope he has his bullet a DeLorean sign [Music] a display of an engine [Music] look at the low toy airplane convertibles that'd be a nice old car there you go there's your Mustang huh I wonder if they sell any of this stuff I doubt it oh my goodness look at that Roadster another wooden car look at this old time wooden car I'll be darn guns up on the wall look at the size of that thing that's a cannon boom can you imagine pulling a trigger on that thing foreign heck I'm wore out just walking through that one it goes way back in the property back there more buildings right here well let's keep trucking see what else we're gonna find I'm sure it's going to be a surprise those old Pepsi machines remember them green grass dude it's pretty good yeah I wonder if they heat these buildings let people come in here in the winter oh here we go wow I don't even know what that is radiators hanging out the front of it oh work trucks there's some old time cars little pickups Willy's Jeep Toyota one of the older ones Dodge the condition these things are in too they're I'm sure they've been restored they're even clean how'd you like to clean all this stuff pretty nice buildings too wherever he had a space he just parked it maybe they're old-time motorhome there you go there's your RV dark green that is it's about dark green as you can get and this more signage on the walls all right let's keep trucking next building eight decade room okay there's an old hot rod convertible it's kind of nice see a Camaro convertible all these must be convertibles in here huh wow look at that yellow well there ain't too many in here these are really fixed up like a stage like they're 1940s I bet they can shoot a movie in this place oh look at that thing was that Rolls Royce oh you guys gotta stop here antique motorcycles of course we got through the cars now what we have in here bingo bicycles still another antique car see I bet wherever he goes hey I've got space let's stick a car in here old motorcycles danger no smoking just everything and anything you could think of and it's old and see this is history he's saving history right here absolutely saving history those are some Old-Timers even though mini bike Indian motorcycles then it's got Harley the old-time scooters imagine just trying to keep track of the tires keeping them aired up look at the old sidecar there is an old the old leather helmets so they used to protect themselves as much as they could Bicycle Built for Two 36 Harley oh my goodness what's this thing look at that here's a stagecoach it's built into a motorcycle Stagecoach trike 1974. dealers use it for show I bet they do that one ought to go to Sturgis huh tiny little tricycle up there for a little kid oh goodness they're hanging off the rafters well pretty cool Antique Motorcycle building here at the Pioneer Auto Show man he ain't kidding at the show what a collection well that one's in a case it's got to be valuable I think everything here is valuable truthfully I think a collection like this could probably how would you ever price it it's priceless you can never replace this stuff hey Elvis is in the house there's this jukebox or whatever it is all right what do you say let's go wander around outside some more you could literally spend weeks in here going through all this stuff well that looks like most of the buildings out here oh gas pumps they're all numbered General Lee we've seen that a little wood shop all the tools yeah they got fans in most of the buildings so you know it's hot it's not bad I bet he's got a big staff taking care of all this stuff plus I got a restaurant here big gift shop restaurant well nothing like having your own train depot here Western Union Station probably the original seating everything trained look at that seats out of a train pot belly stove foreign movie props if you're ever shooting a movie oh my goodness this guy would have a ticket office with the big bars on it player pianos this all the Antiques all the bottles phonographs Barber Shop dental office back in the day they claimed Barbers were dentists too they were the local place to go get fixed up need a stove look at them all hmm just everywhere well take a pic we'll just zigzag back and forth huh until we get to the end how am I going one of these I'm shocked oh boy how colorful if you're a photographer this is a photographer's dream to come and shoot these vehicles thank you look at that even a sign up there Burns Motor Sales I mean they're everywhere and they're clean for being out in these buildings like this they must clean them off probably have almost daily with all the wind all about license plates still got air in the tires I like that one look at that and that blue and we're walking foreign number 19 here oh here you go Pioneer Auto Sales yeah I wonder if they sell them I doubt it most these museums won't they collect they want more where would you ever see something like that that's original hard to find it's very hard to find oh no there's an empty spot maybe he did sell one there's one of those solar cars all one big solar panel I've seen those before look at the front end on that thank you incredible looks like well there's a gas station all set up looks like these buildings here look at the tractors need a tractor he's got everything else here covered wagons farm equipment cars stuff back in here so the good stuff's in the other oh look at the size of that that's one of them steam tractors we gotta see that thing we're getting near the back of the property here look at the size it's sunk in the ground it's so heavy thing is humongous imagine that thing running oh man I bet that makes a racket 30 to 60 horsepower old time wagon there just more stuff never seen anything like this in my life I've been to a lot of museums I think we're at the back of the property Building 22 yep there's the back gate Corky's Auto Supply you just need a team of people running around buying this stuff there's no way one guy could do all this every car has its place these ones are really packed in here wonder how many hundreds of cars I got old Volkswagen maybe they start back here and work their way up front in the collection because you got to add titles on all this stuff still gotta license them even though they're sitting I mean they're all antiques not sure how all that works kind of like the way they laid out the colors I mean every other cars is a different color makes the other ones really stand out Chevrolet well that's a new one there look at that thing that's an old car probably somebody's personal car get to drive it I was like come in here every day and say I'll take this one home well when you think you're done you're not that simple uh four dead Souls I've seen those front ends before it's all rusted up they probably got people that restore them [Music] absolutely amazing well we're getting at the end of it it looks like I think I keep saying that but every building there's more that thing's seen this day that's tiny look at the orange yuck old Corvair I know what those cars are foreign ends on those big cars the big bumpers and grills they don't make them like that anymore of course you need a boat motor Antique Boat Motor collection air compressor collection there is nothing that this guy hasn't collected huh let's see here did I miss anything I don't think so that's the train depot what what fire trucks silly me why wasn't I thinking where's the fire trucks at oh they're right here oh man okay now I think we got it Maybe don't know we're in there milk cans it says Exit Cafe and gift shop let's go check it out thank you about everything you can think of in here but this isn't the Antiques they got their t-shirts and hats now those signs would be cool that a lot of people buy those games puzzles postcards a few knickknacks some of the older stuff not bad I'm sure their food's good too very good [Music] yeah that's from that TV show that van there but who'd ever think a little town I mean population here can't be that much a little town like Murdo South Dakota has an auto museum that's beyond the audio Museum I mean you've seen it there's everything under the sun that that these people have collected the sign said 1954 so they've been collecting for 70 years pray the family through the generations of keeping it going but if you get a chance got to come here to Murdo South Dakota there's a couple RV parks [Music] which I'm gonna spend the night at then tomorrow we're going to keep on our journey exploring across South Dakota what a beautiful state we're traveling on the little road uh kind of parallel to I-90 here just left Murdo had a great stay that last night wasn't that museum cool the Pioneer Auto Museum foreign next Road should cut us underneath the highway there is a historic I guess it's a movie set town they call it uh 1880 I'm gonna go underneath the highway here this is actually I-90 goes east to west through South Dakota look this up online look pretty interesting there's a RV park here look at that on the left looks like they got a boondocking parking lot probably pull in there okay there's our RV Park quite a few rigs looks like a gas station better get something to eat here all right well what do you say gotta check it out it's supposed to be uh like a little town like an old western town the whole real deal okay well let me get parked we'll check her out 1880 town Dakota territory right here on I-90 okay let's do it well we're in this Round Barn thing here apparently dance is With The Wolves movie was shot here Gunsmoke all kinds of uh western tv series and movies they've used this place kind of interesting a lot of props are here I guess their big claim to fame was that movie dancing with the wolves that Kevin Costner won just all kinds of old relics out that door there goes out to the town itself but the guy said be sure to check out upstairs there's pictures of the actors when they were here shooting all right let's head up here the lighting in here isn't the best so if the camera gets a little jumpy I can't do much about it looks like all kinds of scenes from the movie wow it's pretty big up here he wasn't kidding when he said there's a lot of stuff there's the TP that was used look at this place it's one another one of those round barns absolutely amazing how they build these can you imagine the weather this thing's withstood oh man pretty cool all right well let's keep looking for we head outside truthfully I don't remember the movie I know it was famous I know that actors famous that Kevin Costner guy look at that there's a chair from the movie set go figure in the middle of South Dakota on i-90. there is all oh look at that there's a picture of the Round Barn wow when they moved it in here I'll be darn there's another picture of it look at the artwork pretty impressive really I'd like to see how they make a movie one time I've never experienced any of that oh look at the floor this flooring that thick see right down below all right well let's head on outside have some fun wow this is a whole town look at these buildings I mean Nate they are realistic huh Hitching Post where your horse look at the watering trough hobby darn you think of stuff like this and like Hollywood but not here going this alone hey Barky look at that all the bottles on the wall very rustic yeah what else a guy says Gunsmoke and some of them other old westerns they use this look at that Wells Fargo Old Stagecoach definitely realistic there's even a camel here somehow it's related to quartzite clear at the end of town I talked to that guy for about 15 minutes I couldn't record him here's the blacksmith shop hey you guys shoot my horse goodness old saddles yeah those lights make it look like it's an oil lamp they flicker there's so much to see here I don't know what the film first clothing and Footwear Emporium patent medicines oh here we go Marshall's office wow there's this bunk hat hanging old stove with a coffee pot there's the desk my goodness uh oh here's the Pokey lock them up maybe there's going to be a jailbreak tonight huh all them old westerns chamber pie well that's more than I need to know okay too funny all right what else can we find here more little buildings those must be like little homes or something check it out yep pictures huh isn't that something I mean they got the dishes set up the towels hanging very realistic I wonder if they do reenactments here I don't know whoop Saloon I've got to go in the saloon thank you it's open wow look at this place you can smell the old wood look at all the actors that signed uh autographs autographed pictures for this place my goodness I'll be darn how realistic is this it is real there's a real-time old western Saloon big old balcony out there what a place to shoot a music video or something I bet they've used that old beat up chairs they look beat up there's your stage with piano and step up to the bar give me a sarsaparilla holy moly The Woodworking this place goodness look at that there's the Gunsmoke cast cast all the old western actors signed pitchers to this place oh Matt Dillon huh that's incredible history might be movies but still history and in here boot shop look at this old clock on the wall the detail of this place is just incredible looks like we're about at the end of it well get some shoes on my horse here my goodness there's some old wagons very well done wow I found a camel look at him [Applause] goodness he's just sitting there watching the traffic go by on the freeway a couple hay burners there too look at them guys huh look at them guys think they're going to get treat or something everywhere you look it's just so detailed what would that be like a watchtower or something oh here we go my oh Otis the camel I Love Popcorn why a camel oh my goodness they're talking about quartzite hi jolly I'll be darn is connected to quartzite all the way up here in South Dakota well isn't that something right there US Army talking about uh oh hi Jolly down there well that is way up there I'm glad I stopped this is kind of a neat little stop here bunch of signs on the interstate about this place all about 1880 town old time Water Tower well let's duck in one or two of these on the way in I don't think we went in this one land office see what's for sale wow this is so realistic if you get a chance you got to stop here for sure they must spend a bundle of maintenance on these old buildings bank and everything look at this stick them up give me the loot right away in your horse even an old fire wagon there pretty cool look they got stuff inside let's peek big old reels fire carriages whatever they called them hoses shingles and siding hardware store there what we got here Stables Dances With The Wolves must been one of the big uh props in the movie was that a water wagon huh okay well not bad glad I stopped I need to go out there and get some fuel before I leave [Music] even out front look at this mannequins and details signage just everywhere pretty good all right I gotta get some fuel [Music] never imagined in a million years place like this even exist on I-90 medal of South Dakota [Music] Hot weather and fire smoke Skies hopefully it's not too bad when we get over towards uh Badlands Badland is that direction not too many more miles [Music] right down there there's our RV Park they even got a replica train I didn't even notice that in the 1880 Town pretty cool foreign [Music] look at that you can park a rig those guys are dry camping over there so you really don't even have to stay in the RV park you could probably dry camp for a night there heck you got food fuel grab a little shut eye go see the 1880 town and keep on trucking well instead the freeway I-90 let's stay on the Frontage Road there's supposed to be a couple cool little towns we're going to try to find a Minuteman Missile Museum which I guess them are all over the area out here we're on this 248 we're kind of skirting along I-90 we just left that 1880. western town wasn't that cool seeing all them old buildings I mean that was a completely set up western town from the 1800s they use it for movie sets well we're kind of cutting through a bunch of Farmland tiny little communities look old motel that once was probably for the interstate was built up the ways here eventually we'll drive through the Badlands too there's a little town up here called Kadoka supposed to have some statues in it some artwork so that's our goal right now to keep up with my travels be sure to check my website rvertv.tv for all the latest and travel information right up the road here too is also a minute man Missile Museum we're going to try to find as well okay I believe this is Kadoka South Dakota it's kind of cool that this road just kind of skirts right along I-90 you can go slow enjoy the scenery instead of getting on that good old interstate fighting traffic supposed to be a pretty good sized RV park here and gas station and some motels I think that's all that's here and those statues we'll find them I see them right off to the right actually we'll get back on this road we'll go straight there let's stop right there's a statues gotta see this stuff until next time you're gonna be through here South Dakota just keeps giving and giving for kind of cool old neat stuff to see I mean that is everywhere look at this it's a truck stop with what metal statues let's take a look at them wow look at that effort look at the amount of welding I mean those are just all metal pieces tools it's got a headlight sitting on top of an old car look at this thing all right have you ever seen anything like that rusted Scrappy its name Scrappy rusted artwork that's cool how'd you like to have that in your front yard now look at these things I don't think these are real they got Metals sticking out of them you know what I think those are made like out of plaster or concrete those aren't real see the metal frame sticking out of it I'll be darn they look real but they're not just to move one of those that has to weigh a ton tons many of them we can feel the heat picking up today is going to be a hot one that's pretty good they can make a it's got to be like a concrete that's solid I'll be darned cool all right well say goodbye to Scrappy here perfect name isn't it oh junkyard they didn't do it big old deer cool all right according to the map here we're only about 16 miles 15 16 miles from that Minuteman Museum would have stayed on the front of Drew I know a lot of people prefer the interstate not me this must be the Old Highway way before they built I-90 okay let's do it look at the size of this thing I can run you over goodness I pulled off for a minute there's been about No No this must be like the eighth or ninth one like a parade no other traffic here just these big tractors look how they have tracks on them track Drive okay here we are made it there's an RV park off to the left and a gas station this is actually Highway 240. it'll Loop through the Badlands but we're not going to bad to the lands yet we're going to check out this National site for Minuteman then we'll go through Badlands must be that building right there cool I found this uh this when I was researching uh different routes looks open to me run by the government they're supposed to be a couple sites that I can drive up we'll have to get on the interstate for a few miles you can actually see a silo with a missile in it okay here we are that's quite a building boy they got a huge parking lot very RV friendly like the whole semis in here kind of like rusted metal on that building Good Old Government all right well let's go and check her out Historic Site imagine back in the day when the government come in and your cornfield and said hey we're going to put in a missile oh man but that was part of error that was a long time ago but they still got them I know in Montana they got them big ones up there great we're going in [Music] the morning all right Great Planes Ground Zero wonder how many of these they had through here the nation's nuclear defense what else they got wow I like that eagle up there huh my goodness November 1989. tear down that wall history people keep forgetting about history this is part of it and it's good they say this stuff cool all right let's go back in here they've got to have good stuff worldwide delivery in 30 minutes or less look they look made it look like a pizza box I bet launch control that's how they used to live they live down underneath the ground because them things are deep I've seen videos of people that have made homes out of them the old abandoned ones I'll be darn missile Fields look at them things downstairs geiger counter for radiation wow pretty powerful you don't think about this stuff when you're driving down I-90 heading to Rapid City or Sturgis look at them things shows you what we have for our defenses Split Second decisions man thank goodness they didn't never launch them and they got little movies playing what went on back in them days what else we got pretty good artwork when I was a kid in school we used to have drills for this stuff matter of fact it looks like the TV I had when I was a kid oh boy look at this interesting all right well I'm gonna find out where those uh sites are and then we'll drive up to them well just uh three four miles up the road the launch building you cannot go inside but there's a display up there like a kiosk storyboards and then a little few miles past that is an actual site that still has a missile in it disarmed instead of taking them back roads we're gonna just take I-90 it's not very far then I'll come back down to this 240. also I found out in there I didn't know about there's a prairie Homestead up the road here then probably gonna check out all kinds of neat stuff and it look around it looks like nothing's here we're finding it this is the exit I said take this one yep 127. make a right and it turns into a gravel road and we're there this is it then the other site just a few miles up the road to that'll be the one that actually has the missile down in it cool that must be the lunch building they give they used to give tours of the inside of it but now it's only for groups look at all that hamburger there my goodness that's a lot of cows but that was launch control for some of the missiles here and now it's just uh like a museum pretty cool Delta 01 launch control ticketed tours yeah but they don't have them now [Music] hey yeah there's the missile that shows the underground bunker underneath the building wow look at all those silos look how many some are still active look at all them things oh man front lines of the Cold War wow and there's the underground bunker looks like a house up here but underneath it was a hole big facility pretty interesting well let's head up the road and find that uh silo all right here it is it's a little farther up than I thought this is exit 116. but not that far looks like it's off to the left we'll have to make a left up here it's really heating up today it's got to be in the mid 90s here not much wind at least we've got a little blue sky not that much fire smoke here it is you wouldn't even know what this thing was out in the middle of these huge Farm fields huh a bunch of cows Farmers doing their thing around the fields and you got missile silos all over it that map was impressive how many of these things were around here look at that restrooms and there it is out there we got to take a walk what's the sign say Minuteman National Historic Site Delta nine interesting I wonder how many missiles one launch facility control wow look how deep that thing is what an effort to construct that my goodness there it is well we're supposed to be able to see one okay got a little bit of a walk foreign people out there what to say okay [Music] foreign [Applause] probably absolutely everything's underground other electrical ventilation look there's the hatchet slides open when they launch it [Music] because [Music] there it is big missile wow huh pretty cool you can even see this stuff all right well cool little visit I gotta head back we're gonna backtrack wanna go find that uh Prairie Homestead [Music] foreign we're gonna drop down this is actually called the 240 Loop that's going to go through the Badlands but we're gonna go check out it's called Prairie Homestead it's run by the state of South Dakota supposed to be able to go in and check out uh how they used to live way back when so that big cool stop then after that we're gonna head into the Badlands yay kind of uh Last Chance gas station there for we take the 240 Loop through the Badlands all right here we go pretty day it's been hot almost every afternoon humidity is up a little bit typical summertime hot days this August summertime weather huh okay it should only be a mile or two up the road here there goes an rver here's a historic marker on the side of the road talking about the CCC the ones that built all the national parks all the camps they had they created all these stuff that we're still using today almost 100 years later absolutely amazing CCC Civilian Conservation Court did okay they always talk about their prairie dogs out here their little garments that Digby Coles we're gonna maybe see some at that Prairie Homestead they showed pictures of it this flat and open a lot of farmland right there you can actually stop look at the big statue of the prairie dog you can actually feed them I don't know if I'd put my hand down there next to him with this wide open Prairie flat egg field [Music] well we should be getting close but these Badlands too it's amazing absolutely amazing you go across landscape like this then it instantly turns into big valleys and mountains and all kinds of good stuff pay off in the distances the Badlands we're not there yet that group of trees right down there should be that uh Prairie Homestead but look how flat and open look at the AG field you can tell where they're building water and screen I'd like to be a farmer out here it wouldn't that be something [Music] foreign right back there is I-90 where we came in this highway 240 is supposed to go all the way over to wall South Dakota all right there's a quick look let's get on into that uh Prairie Homestead [Music] here it is here right on the right hand side should be interesting see how they live back in the day looks open see prairie dogs everywhere them guys are there's holes everywhere here's our Visitor Center now this is run by the state this is not a national thing here it's by South Dakota they charge to get in I don't think it's much like five bucks or something let's see what this sign says up here doesn't look too busy sod home 1854 wow there's the South Dakota state seal kind of a log structure here map of the area we're going to end up over at Wall South Dakota let's go on in how much is it just me brochure for you okay tell you about the ground sir okay I was like guided tours I'm gonna skip that I just want to go check it out myself well what we got here looks like the water well with the whole hand pump on it one of the homes says it was water 30 feet deep well dug by hand wow that's a lot in this old rocky soil Prairie Homestead look at all the holes look at all the prairie dogs my goodness a member of Montana there was a bunch of them things too they're part of nature but they're destructive if they get too underneath their homes look at this old old old this should be interesting I still wouldn't want to hand feed one I like it back at that other place don't think so what's this one welcome to the home of Mr and Mrs Ed Brown 1909 look at that here's their home can you imagine having your home turned into a museum someday wow look at this structure they built it into the dirt look at that help keep it cool in the summer and warmer in the winter look at the mud walls wow old stove I'm sure it's been restored somewhat look log beam ceiling still standing well we got in here lighting's not very good this is their bedroom I'll be darn history here you go just more history old dining room table and have breakfast canned goods on the shelves pretty cool picture and newspaper articles glued to the walls a lot of time and effort goes into keeping something like this going here's the living room Mr and Mrs Brown this is where they sat very watching RV or TV oh no they couldn't back then Oregon a lot of these old places got an organ that was their entertainment play music and sing what we have here there you go fruit seller can't go in it because the prairie dogs have made homes in there so that was our Refrigeration big old fruit Cellar there's the outhouse all right let's head down to the barn it's not real big but it's kind of cool stuff it was only uh six bucks get in here I don't mind that as long as they keep it going if it helps keeps restoring it and for future Generations that's a good thing yeah there's holes everywhere in this property farming wagon there oh look at the big tub boiler tub okay you can wash your clothes wow but that thing I wonder how much that weighs all right what we got here looks like the old barn aha the Browns old car I'd say it's been in there since 1909 tires are rotted off of it back in the day that was Modern Transportation you were styling one of those a lot of holes in the barn but it's still standing what we got down here looks like his Workshop did his own blacksmithing probably worked on his equipment pretty well done not bad for uh Homestead that's uh what over a hundred and oh man 120 years old I don't know looks like something's still oh look they got goats so they still got Critters here look at them lazy bones what a life huh they get the people watching eat some good grass and hay and people watch all day long too funny not a bad little stop it's worth it especially history you helped save history by supporting these kind of places all right to the van we go well I'm gonna find me a place to camp for the night tomorrow we'll just keep right on rolling on Highway 240. foreign back on the road we're gonna drive through the Badlands of South Dakota see some of the pretty mountains and valleys all the different rock formations whoa end up all the way through over to a Wall South Dakota wow there it is there's the start of it cool it's right around eight o'clock in the morning I picked this time so we'd get the sunshine behind us so the color should be good driving through this this is Highway 240 they call it the Badlands Loop we actually end up in wall w-a-l-l Wall South Dakota where Wall Drug is so that's a goal there's some pull outs here you know all kinds of hiking trails if you look at this thing on the maps there is just Trail after Trail where you end up seeing some really fantastic views almost looks like Mars doesn't it love the different tiers of the formations over the millions of years this is dinosaur country two they look for fossils all over the place foreign behind this now you can really see the colors of the little mountains here rocks different formations look at that green grass right next to this stuff weather's hot as usual Good Old South Dakota in the summer that road's closed off there's definitely camping all over around in here there's a little town on the other side called interior it's supposed to be campgrounds over there too RV parks I'm pretty sure the drive was like 30 30 plus miles going through here so here we go wow now you can really see out over it cool here we go enjoy the ride we are dropping down 25 mile an hour you bet they got a lot of these little pull-offs here blocked off I can't so I really can't stop it's okay I'm sure we'll find places get smart there's good Sunshine behind us wow now you can really see a big old Valley here huh here goes the banner seen a bunch of Vans here recently well it was Sturgis and everything going you see motorcycles Vans campers RVs absolutely everywhere here comes a motorhome then this road here to the left it'll take you over to a little Campground where you can camp right here in the and also over to a town called interior well enjoy the ride this is uh Highway 240 called the Badland Loop heading towards Wall South Dakota look at all the rock formations sun's coming up really appreciate the color I'll find a place up here we'll pull off and uh take a little sneak peek slow ride through here they got speed limits 25 and 35 that's okay let's stop here check it out this is probably a Farmland at some time quite a bit of grass little Pathways down through there so you can do quite a bit of hiking here well let's pop back in the van we'll keep on trucking you know it would really go good here is one of those electric bikes or a mountain bike because you get pretty good range on those electric bikes anymore heck you could go quite a ways wouldn't have to Pedal my type of bicycle go to my website rveretv.tv we have reviews of electric bikes one of the companies is named Electric just the different colors this reminds me so much of the Petrified Forest Area Painted Desert down in Arizona almost looks identical the terrain except for the grass there's no grass down there but they got a much cooler and wetter climate up here those trees look pretty happy in the courses no my goodness winners here are brutal absolutely brutal feet of snow probably so if you're wondering what it'd be like to drive through Mars this would probably be it really cool looking glad I came through here decent road too looks pretty well maintained it's actually a highway you can cut through to different towns makes you wonder when you drive through areas like this the the settlers back in the 1800s how they toughed out the weather I'm sure they had a livestock running around here farming water all of it now we just drive through it in 30 minutes and done with it once again saving history got to keep the history going enjoy the views there's plenty of them now we're climbing up out of here look at this I'm gonna get views from up top cool wow just as far as you can see goodness foreign well that's absolutely gorgeous all right starting to flatten out we're getting out of the little mountains now one last look back that way foreign here's one get out of the van take a little walk we'll go up this walkway see what we got I bet it's a good view what do you think foreign no winter maintenance says Trails might get icy oh yeah now we're going to get a view wow as far as you can see look at that flat farmland turns into one of these magnificent valleys I call it like rock art Rock sculptures by Mother Nature absolutely beautiful now we're kind of riding on top of it here's another one let's stop now there's a perfect setup pulling a little trailer like that with a car probably goes all over the country all right pull over here get parked foreign there's goats around here mountain goats pretty steep down through there I just seen a goat run down through there we didn't run he's going right along the cliff okay what have we got here homesteads and ranches wow could you imagine living here back in the day now there's your home on the Prairie oh my goodness think of their life back then huh cool look at that picture got his own phonograph here I'll be darned what have you yeah they've got to have cattle around here and probably water looks pretty dry though huh okay I'm gonna zoom in here if you can see them right there there's a mountain goat people watching them guys can walk straight up and down these uh cliffs absolutely amazing there's a whole family of them very very cool stop this is one of these little drives bringing a little lunch if you're not in an RV throw it in your car on your motorcycle I've seen quite a few motorcycles what a road to ride can't beat this weather almost no wind absolutely perfect it's a lot greener the colors are different on the landscape oh cool let me pull off here a sec let me get a video of this what I'm talking about but uh sides are all greened up so they must add a lot better water or moisture up here see how green looking that is then it gets up certain level then it turns back to Brown no clue what the elevation is here but look at it very different they definitely got water here this is the other side of the road I walk across the road that Greenery goes way up through that like low valley huh what if there's your Kodak moment there's your postcard pitcher except for the car that was cool just something different I just happened to notice I bet they really have open range you here because those cows could graze on that grass all day long cool all right back to the lunar landscape here doesn't it looked like uh those pictures you see from Mars and the moon and all that more people are getting out now too it's getting a little later on but I'm glad I did this timing because we got the best sunlight driving through here we are really starting to climb up out of here going up pretty quick there's a schooly all set up a lot of people doing the schooly builds now that's very popular well heck you can buy him for next and nothing or it used to who knows now price of diesel is really starting to shoot up though wow look at this View absolutely gorgeous if you get out this way you have to take this drive for sure well we say let's stop see what else we can find here what's that say Ancient Hunters Overlook cool [Music] [Music] Ancient Hunters wow look at the looks like it's made out of bone looks like arrowheads rocks and this is the same view they had way way back when we're and we're looking at it except for the paved Road and sidewalk and motorhomes and Van this is what they've seen up here probably what Buffalo and all kinds of Wildlife what a place to hunt goodness foreign Trails down through there [Music] there's the GoPro mounted on the van that's how you get into most of the road shots video Ancient Hunters Overlook gotta remember this one what have you [Music] this place is a photographer's dream and I mean dream a real photographer it's a good equipment could oh my goodness capture a lot of landscape think of all the wildlife that lives up in those uh crevices and holes he could really zoom in on it or her well we're still climbing up out of this foreign this really stretches out up top here it's as far as you can see we'll throw this one on your bucket list Highway 240 the Badland Loop you don't even have to get out of your car it's only about a 40 50 minute drive speed limit's low slow and it'll take you clear over from the Minuteman Missile Museum all the way over here we're almost up to Wall South Dakota so I'm going to grab a campsite tonight tomorrow we'll check out wall this is Highway 240 we're almost up to Wall South Dakota where the historic famous Wall Drug is located foreign up here is I-90 we could have been zigzagging off I-90 checking out all these neat locations South Dakota does not disappoint in different little places you can stop my goodness I mean they're endless and we haven't even seen them all but here in a wall if you've ever driven I-90 you've seen their signage these guys have Billboards for hundreds of miles in both directions all over the place advertising the wall drugstore and they've been doing it for I think like a century long time matter of fact I think it was way back I was here a lot of years ago there's also the national grassland Visitor Center here too look how green everything is it's definitely hot hot times in South Dakota summertime there's a little grocery store about a block off the left oh cool look at the sculptures there wood carving that's an art I had a friend that used to do that okay well let's see well this is a street to Wall Drugs on been a long time I bet back in the 80s I drove through here and it was a huge tourist trap then but it's a fun tourist trap okay right off here to the right grassland Visitor Center let's go check it out National grasslands Visitor Center I bet it's air conditioned in there too yeah this whole region is all national grassland on the inside look at this they got all the different grasses that grow here looks like some Wildlife stuff pretty cool looking Native American displays never realized how many different grasses there are this place is nice [Music] versity of the Prairie Life very weather hot and cold windy [Music] look all the displays got the owls prairie dog oh yeah prairie dogs seen a bunch of them back at that Prairie Homestead Wetlands yeah it does get rain here but during the drought this year this is very well done in here this is a good little stop plus all these places they got great maps and stuff you can get for free [Music] cool looking eagle all kinds of good stuff definitely worth a stop check this out grassland National Visitor Center in Wall South Dakota too cool for school all right let's go Cruise downtown this place can get really really busy right up here in the right here's Wall Drug it's it's like a massive uh many malls shopping mall last time I was in there all the different types of shops down here but on the inside we'll we'll go in for a little bit look at that cafes on the other just incredible the amount of people that stop here but the signage hopefully we can find some history in there I believe it started way back like that early 1900s plus the advertising they do they they're absolute Geniuses in marketing wow look at them big green silos them things are huge well I'll go find that place that free parking we'll get parked and we'll go walk around railroad tracks there's RV park straight off where that RV is coming out of there kind of googled this place where I got here checked out the lay of the land I don't know where I'll stay tonight maybe here not too busy yet that's a good thing it's right around 11 in the morning looks like they got more parking back behind there all right well what do you say go take a quick walk see what I can get into here and I'm not buying any new t-shirts nope no buying shirts this trip all right let's go have fun go walk around Badlands Veterans Memorial American Legion nice it's right back here at the parking lot pretty cool yeah they got it quite a bit of parking plus I think you can park the streets there's motels and whatnot down near the I-90 the exit there the town's not that big I mean there's not that many people I think population on this thing is around a thousand or two we've got here police copper shop here copper Stoppers but they got their hands full in the summer all right let's do this walk over by Wall Drug first then we'll come back down this side you missed 150 people out here God yeah I know when everybody got here like six six thirty and they don't open until eight so it goes back 150 people were lined up to get in here okay well let's wander the street first and I'll go inside maybe those 150 people will leave this is what I remember what it was so it's takes up his entire city block here it's a shop after shop inside they're all independent shops and probably they just renting space out look at that they got their doors numbered there's several entrances to get in here [Music] door number two is locked okay actually I'm glad there's not too many people here right now it sure is warming up though here you go Black Hills Gold all kinds of Black Hills Gold Jewelry well what do you think let's go in uh door number one here check it out [Music] here it is look at it it's huge clothing absolutely everything anything you can think of probably some pretty expensive real estate to have set up shop though but look at the traffic it drives and tour buses come in here this is what it's like inside Wall Drug old western scene where they played music look at that when are my pitchers been taken of this well back there's a whole bunch more buildings Western Art Gallery we'll go check that out too there's a two horsepower model wagon look they got little sprinklers for the kids to run through it is hot here 1931. that's when it started I knew it was early 1900s something old old pictures just hundreds and hundreds of them look at all these things you could spend quite a bit of time in which they want you to in here more time in here the chances are you're gonna buy something pretty good marketing fun little stop there's a big dragon down here at the end [Music] pretty good I mean it's just endless what you can see in here I like this back building much better in the front front's full of stores this is kind of their memorabilia stuff back here definitely check out Wall Drug [Music] yeah kind of glad to be out of there a lot of people okay let's continue our walk cruise to downtown block here I think I'll might check out that RV park later yes some old western wear I mean you can just buy anything here it's kind of hard to see with the reflection sorry about that coffee refills five cents t-shirts more t-shirts everyone's got a t-shirt or a hat for sale here think how competitive but boy I bet they sell a ton of them more Black Hills Gold they're not open that's too bad all right well what else we got oh there you go Badlands Harley Davidson well Harley Davidsons in South Dakota they go together don't they all kinds of parking back down there yeah that was really hard to film inside that uh drugstore they're just blaring copyrighted music when a good fit definitely check it out though it's kind of fun to go in there jackalopes corner here you go more t-shirts post office looks like the real deal wall discount everything 8 8.99 there you go foreign [Music] get the front of it a little Outdoor Cafe there t-shirts coffee cups pretty cool you imagine back in the day I mean these towns go way back to the 1800s frosted mugs oh boy a strawberry daiquiri area on a hot day old Frosted Mug beers I bet they sell a few of those here another look over there smart cars are parking they're coming in now but looks like the majority of them are open now turquoise liquidation 50 to 70 percent off now how could you pass that up [Music] South Dakota wine they got their own wine here [Music] Factory owned store cool more jewelry foreign [Music] stuff okay well there's downtown Wall we survived it all right let's head back to the van [Music] what a cool little town now how'd you like to live here Wall South Dakota nothing but tourism but there's farming look at them big silos and everything here's a really good look at how the size of Wall Drug look at that it takes up entire city block my goodness look at the size of that thing but demand advertising they do all the Billboards on the highways in those big green silos got their own railroad tracks running through here pretty good there's that RV park I think I'm gonna go check them out [Music] thank you for watching once in a lifetime series of South Dakota 200 mile drive what an epic trip there's many more of these type series coming up be sure to check out rvertv.tv website Journey continues talk soon

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Published: Fri Jan 06 2023