Lewis and Clark Trail Inventory: South Dakota
Signs, Statues, and Markers
By Kristopher K. TownsendUS National Park Service (LCNHT)
This page is an inventory of sites commemorating the Lewis and Clark journey in the present state of South Dakota. In the late summer of 1804, the Lewis and Clark flotilla went up the Missouri River—first along the Nebraska-South Dakota border and then north across South Dakota. They passed this way again on their return camping at Calumet Bluff on September 1 of both 1804 and 1806.
In 2009, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail of the U.S. National Park Service conducted an inventory of Lewis and Clark-related interpretive panels, signs, markers, and some statuary. The results of that survey have been compiled into a database and presented here by Kris Townsend. For other regions, see Lewis and Clark Trail Inventory. If you have more current photos and new sites to include, please contact editor@trailresearch.org and we will update this inventory.