Car Rentals South Dakota

Hertz Car Rentals in South Dakota

• Bear Country USA
  This unique opportunity to view wildlife in a natural habitant is one of the most thrilling adventures you and your family can enjoy while in the great state of South Dakota.  Take a 3 mile drive through the 250 acre park to see all the various animals that live and thrive in this fantastic environment.  Set in the Black Hills, with rolling plains and grassy knolls, these creatures love to have their pictures taken and sometimes you will think that they are really actors in bear suits.  Here you will have the chance to watch a black bear come up to your car and look in to see who is looking out at him or her.  Reindeer and elk will come close to your vehicle as you traverse the wonderful park that allows these wild creatures to roam free and to let families of cars drive the park's 3 miles enjoying the fantastic sights of wild animals doing whatever they feel like doing in this natural setting.  This is the biggest collection of privately owned bears in the world, with tall pine trees and majestic meadows for a backdrop.  Acting more like a circus of clowns, these beautiful animals will entertain you like no other group has ever done or will ever do.  People from all over the nation and different parts of the world have come here to see the frolicking critters doing their thing.  Most of the animals are born here, and hand raised by the park's staff, with new cubs arriving each spring.  Besides the bears, they raise timber wolves, mountain lions, arctic wolves and bobcats.  They use chickens and peafowl to keep the tick problem minimal and the eggs from the chickens are used in the diet in babyland; where the young are kept and raised and visitors can have closer contact.

Hertz Rental Cars Rapid City Reg. Apt. 4550 Terminal Rd. Ste. 108

Hertz Rental Cars Foss Field
2801 Jaycee Lane

• Prairie Homestead Historic Site
  This sod house is one of the few remaining in the nation and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.  It shows the hardship conditions that the early pioneers of the early 1900s endured in the new state of South Dakota and is more like that conditions that the early settlers of the east coast lived in during their earliest years almost 200 years ago.  But whatever the looks or conditions, it was a home to these sturdy settlers that had their own land to use for whatever purposes that deemed fit and it was quite cool in the summers and warm in the winters, especially in this cold land.  The thick sod walls and dirt roof had little maintenance, and were better suited for the severe winters than the frame buildings others constructed.  Most of these homes have been destroyed by hard rains and prairie winds.  This homestead and the nearby Badlands Trading Post are found near the entrance to the Badlands National Park and the homestead renovated in 1962 bringing it back to the original condition of its earliest existence.  It was placed on the National Register list in 1974 and has a AAA rating as an attraction.  The home is part of the parcel of 160 acres that Ed Brown and his wife filed claim on in the early 1900s.  Many of these types of homes were built on the plains, since wood was scarce and hard to get, better use being in the furniture building and the burning for fire wood.  The homestead was built in 1909 and most of the original furnishings are still inside.  The site is also home to the world's only white prairie dog town with about 50 of the white critters living in a natural environment without outside control or attention.

March 14, 2011