Native American Scenic Byway - South Dakota
Native American Scenic Byway - South Dakota is a National Scenic Byway in South Dakota. Within South Dakota it covers roughly 310 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Native American Scenic Byway - South Dakota with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
South Dakota's Native American Scenic Byway continues north from Fort Pierre along the Missouri River to Mobridge. It crosses Cheyenne River and Standing Rock reservation land on Highways 1806, 34, and 63, passing Eagle Butte and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's headquarters, the route reaches a bluff two miles southwest of Mobridge where the granite Sitting Bull Monument, carved by Korczak Ziolkowski of Crazy Horse Memorial fame, overlooks the river beside the smaller Sakakawea Monument funded by Mobridge schoolchildren in the 1920s. Sitting Bull's remains were controversially reinterred there in 1953, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Between the monuments and the reservation towns, the drive is wide-open Missouri River breaks country, with prairie grassland running to the water's edge and few services beyond Eagle Butte and Mobridge. It's the northern leg of the same federally designated Native American Scenic Byway that begins farther south near Chamberlain, sharing its National Scenic Byway status.
- Standing Rock Reservation
- Sitting Bull Monument
- Sakakawea Monument
- Mobridge
- Cheyenne River Reservation
- Eagle Butte
- Missouri River breaks
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What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.