MITCHELL, South Dakota

[yerfdog]

Mitchell, SD is a city of about 15,000 that is 75 miles west from Sioux Falls along Interstate 90. It is somewhat of a tourist destination, mainly because of the Corn Palace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Palace
It also has a couple museums, the Dakota Discovery Museum and the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village archeological site.

It has a pretty big historic downtown just south of the Corn Palace, and it didn't seem to be doing as badly as you might think (most storefronts looked occupied, though not prosperous). The first few of these were taken in the car, so I apologize for the poor quality. We didn't have time to really walk around too much.














The Corn Palace - the outside decoration is made entirely from corn.



They were redoing this side, you can see the black part looking like a paint-by-numbers code for the different colors of corn.





They have pictures of most of the previous versions of the Corn Palace, which used to be in a slightly different location, and looked pretty different. They redecorate it every year.


Has a basketball court in it

[Rocket1964]

I have been through Mitchell a few times and have some pics of that Corn Palace going back to 1977 but do you think I could find them? No. Anyway, that year they had famous comedians on the outside. Cool little town on the way to Sturgis.

[denveraztec]

Interesting little town but that corn palace rocks! Thanks for the post.

[Rocket1964]

I like how Chicago posts get 2000 comments and this little jewel gets 2. LOL.

[Top Of The Park]

I don't know...that bar called Dr. Lucky's just doesn't sound right

[kcexpress69]

Now I want some Corn Nuts!!

[mhays]

I used to have an uncle in Mitchell. We had a great family reunion in about 1994. Only drove past the Corn Palace though. Amazing that they do it. But of course now they have to keep it up!

[Shantytown Architect]

Geyerman clothing? Someone did not think that one through (or the really did).

[Magnus1]

thanks for shooting mitchell! i grew up in Sioux falls and visited my Grandparents who lived there.

agreed, they have a real decent DT considering Sioux falls (metro pop 225,000) is only about 50 min from there. i hear their strip club is quite popular. i love the lakes up there!

[Thundertubs]

Cool pics. We don't get enough South Dakota. Or either Dakota really.

[yerfdog]

I have some others from Kennebec, South Dakota, 100 miles west on I-90 from Mitchell, SD. It is the county seat of Lyman County, hence the Lyman County courthouse, which is hilariously outsize for a town of 284. It does have about a 1 block main street that ends at the courthouse, with a few very modest 1 story commercial buildings and small houses, but I didn't take a picture.

Actually none of these pics were with the intent of posting them here, although I wish I had thought of it at the time. What I've posted in this thread are just the few pics that are of reasonable interest to this forum. I could have gotten lots better shots of this and other South Dakota towns if I'd thought to do it like a photo tour.





First glimpse of the courthouse


Tallest building in town is a grain elevator, naturally


The rather nice-looking courthouse


Pretty sunset in the KOA campground (not my car, it just was in the way, hehe)

[LSyd]

surreal. thanks for the trip.

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[ShadowMaster]

We don't get much of the Dakotas at all, perhaps not even 1% of SSP covers the Dakotas in terms of photography!

Respect for the thread! Well done!