Old MacDonalds Petting Farm: Family Fun in the Black Hills

Image via WikipediaOld MacDonalds petting farm is a fun spot to bring your kids when you're visiting the Black Hills of South Dakota.

On the farm you'll find animal displays (some of which you can enter), watch eggs incubate, hold baby chicks, and bottle feed baby animals in the nursery and bottle-baby pens.

You'll also find a centrally-located playground, where adults can relax in the shade while their kids play, a fish pond, barrel train and pony rides.

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Visiting Bear Butte

Image via WikipediaMato Paha (Bear Butte) is perhaps the most well known sacred site in South Dakota. It is a prayer site for over 30 American Indian tribes, many of whom perform yearly ceremonies here.

By walking just a few feet along the trail to Mato Paha, you'll begin seeing colorful swatches of fabric tied here, there and everywhere on tree branches, bushes and even stumps. These are tobacco ties, and they represent the prayers of the faithful pilgrims to this beautiful mountain.

Mato Paha is designated as a National Historic Landmark (#73001746)

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