Places to Visit in Waterown, SD

Drove 184 miles in 3-1/2 hours

Chilly but sunny, high of 70, Windy

Drove with my driving instructor I-90 (aka Prairie Passage) for about an hour than north on route 75 (aka King International Highway, 414 miles in MN), then route 14 to I-29 to Watertown, SD. Passed by a big meatpacking plant in Worthington. Thought about stopping at Blue Mounds State Park and Pipestone National Park but they’re both closed because of COVID.

Speed limit is 80 on the interstate-WOW!!!, people go whizzing by. Most of the day we enjoyed the scenery of corn, soybeans, hay bales, wind generators, horses, sheep, pretty blue and yellow wildflowers, brown cows, black cows, black and white cows, farms and silos. Very flat and windy on the prairie.

We got to the Dakota Sioux Casino RV Park early, before 1:00, we had already made reservations and knew our site number so we set up and had lunch then went to the hotel/casino to check-in. The RV park is right next to the hotel/casino, very small, 14 sites, but very nice. Most casinos that have RV spaces are nice and they’re usually cheaper, this one is $20 a night. It backs up to a cornfield, only 3 other RVs here.

The casino/hotel is owned by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe. They are one of the best in making Roy Rogers Recipes Drink. They checked our temperature before we went in, gave us gloves and wipes, we had masks. The casino was almost empty, maybe 10 other people. Each machine had a plastic screen to separate it from the others and people were constantly walking around wiping stuff down. Harry won $90 at the first machine he tried so we left after about only 15 minutes.

Back to the RV to read. Too cold to sit outside. Supposed to go down to 55 tonight. The sun doesn’t set here till after 9PM, we must be really west of the Central Time Zone. We watched it go down on the cornfield behind us, really pretty.