Travel in state South Dakota

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Think the Midwest is just a cornfield you fly over between coasts? Don’t be fooled by that nonsense.

Spend any time in South Dakota and what strikes you most is that the place still works. At a time when so many American cities seem like backdrops for the next Hollywood dystopian thriller, life amid the amber waves of grain feels like utopia, a remnant of a country that once was. With 63 parks and recreation areas to explore, it’s no surprise that Forbes included the state on their recent best travel destinations list.

Multiple state tourism agencies ended their growing participation on the short-form video sharing platform TikTok to comply with their state executive orders. As they exit, they plan to move the resources allocated for TikTok into their other social media channels.

Tourism agencies are investing more of their advertising dollars in streaming because of its targeting precision, measurement and flexibility.

A national TikTok ban in the U.S. would put an end to tourism agencies’ growing investment in the platform and push them to redirect it into Meta and Google’s social platforms as well limit their ability to influence global conversations about their destination.

Tourism boards in Montana haven’t given up their TikTok accounts just yet. They’re waiting for legal challenges to play out following a recent state-wide ban.

The San Francisco Travel Association is making its first investment in connected TV advertising as part of its latest campaign to speed up its sluggish recovery and combat negative perceptions about the city. 

We had come, mistakenly, for the wildflowers. We'd heard that in spring, South Dakota's Badlands erupted in blooms. Though we identified some provocative species—woolly locoweed, meadow death camas, and Western false asphodel, a carnivorous plant disguised in white frippery—we were a few weeks early for the main event. It was the start of May and still a bit chilly for most of the species to blossom.

The Great American West is as great as its name implies. The region – covering North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho – is big-sky country, characterized by epic landscapes from the towering Rocky Mountains to the tumbleweed Great Plains. You’ll find fifteen national parks and monuments here, ripe for exploring. But how has the area experienced coronavirus, and how is it opening up? We chatted with The Great American West PR and Communications Manager Kim Paulson to learn more.

From India to Italy to the USA, whether it's fiction or non-fiction, we've all travelled the world at some point in time through the captivating words of our favourite novels. Some will take you into the depths of the African jungles, and others plonk you right in the middle of the wide, empty ocean. It's often these words on paper that ignite our desire to see the world for real, so if you're after some literary inspiration, here are twelve books with great journeys to read about and get lost in, and perhaps one day follow.

Roads. They can be long and winding, yes. But they’re often a whole lot else: teetering on the edge of an abyss; carved through mountain terrain so high your head swims; engulfed by tides; and even swamped by molten lava (really). Here, we’ve chosen 15 of the world’s craziest drives.

We asked our readers to vote for the most beautiful locations in the USA. Now the results are in. This gallery showcases the top twenty most beautiful places in America as voted by Rough Guides readers.

The USA's parks get a lot of hype. From the Grand Canyon to the Everglades, America's backyard is pretty special. But while ever-increasing visitor numbers put pressure on these popular sites, many of the beautiful state parks remain under the radar. Given that there are more than 10,000 of them to choose from, that's a real shame. To get you started, we've picked the most beautiful state parks in the USA that really are worth a visit.