{"id":5352,"date":"2017-09-02T01:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:42:47","slug":"stw2-hop-4-mitchell-sd-to-interior-sd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/stw2-hop-4-mitchell-sd-to-interior-sd\/","title":{"rendered":"STW2 Hop 4: Mitchell SD to Interior SD"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"STW2<\/a>

STW2 Hop 4<\/p><\/div>\n

217 miles via I-90, SD 244, SD 370 and SD 44. Cumulative tow miles: 791. Truck miles: 227. Cumulative truck miles: 955.<\/p>\n

This hop revealed the full drama of the South Dakota landscape. The first 80 miles, from Mitchell to the Missouri River, was flat and boring. Then, suddenly, a big dip to the river and, once across, the landscape simply bubbled up: sharp hills, a change from corn to wheat and sunflowers. Then an exit off of I-90 and suddenly the jagged, jarring Badlands appeared like a slap in the face.<\/p>\n

The hills west of the Missouri really put a dent into our mileage and I got concerned that we would run short of fuel. I decided to make an impromptu refueling stop in Murdo SD. It was expensive ($2.90 per gallon), but it bought me some peace of mind. As it turned out, that was a good decision. Interior SD (population 67) doesn’t have much to offer, including places to get diesel fuel.<\/p>\n

We will be staying near the Badlands for 3 days, so I hope to get some great photos.<\/p>\n

Our overnight home in Mitchell was the Dakota Campground<\/a>. This is a very small (about 55 sites) campground with basic facilities. It was just for a night, so we didn’t need much. But we liked it. If we ever find ourselves in Mitchell again we would stay there.<\/p>\n

But why go back to Mitchell? The main attraction in Mitchell – and the reason I wanted to stay there – was so see the Corn Palace<\/a>. I had moderately fond memories of this strange building from when I was 12 and traveled with my parents to Denver, with a stop in Mitchell. This was a building that was covered with corn – cobs of corn, corn husks, corn stalks. Murals made out of corn decorated the interior. Odd, but strangely interesting.<\/p>\n

\"#39<\/a>

#39 – South Dakota<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, at some point the city fathers of Mitchell decided that the turn-of-the-century (the 20th century, not the 21st) Corn Palace needed to be replaced and thought that they would combine the need for a new Corn Palace with a need for a new sports arena. So now you have this modern building that looks interesting on the outside, but the corn murals on the inside are high above a basketball court and are covered with championship banners. Anyone who actually wanted to see the corn murals would be as disappointed as I was. A huge letdown. If you are thinking of visiting the Corn Palace, my advice is: don’t bother.<\/p>\n

Our night in Mitchell allowed us to add South Dakota to our map. Our 39th state.<\/p>\n

\"Corn<\/a>

Corn Palace interior<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Corn<\/a>

Corn Palace exterior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

217 miles via I-90, SD 244, SD 370 and SD 44. Cumulative tow miles: 791. Truck miles: 227. Cumulative truck miles: 955. This hop revealed the full drama of the South Dakota landscape. The first 80 miles, from Mitchell to the Missouri River, was flat and boring. Then, suddenly, a big dip to the river … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70,4,7,5,71,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-mn","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-places-sd","category-stw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7475,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}