Bars

Deadwood, South Dakota

Badlands Saloon & Grille is one of Deadwood's most popular Main Street bars — a casual gaming and entertainment venue with live music on weekends, a full casino floor, and the kind of western frontier atmosphere that brings Deadwood visitors back year after year. The saloon's Main Street location puts it at the center of Deadwood's historic gaming corridor and serves as the prototypical experience of what Deadwood entertainment offers: casual gaming, cold beer, live country music, and the electric feeling of a town where gambling has never stopped.

649 Main St 57732

Deadwood, South Dakota

The Silverado-Franklin is one of Deadwood's most historic casino bars — a Victorian-era saloon and gaming hall where the spirit of the frontier still runs through the floorboards. Operating since Deadwood's 1989 casino legalization and housed in a building dating to the boom era, it is a central stop on any Deadwood walking tour of casino bars.

709 Main St 57732

Hill City, South Dakota

Prairie Berry Winery is the Black Hills' most celebrated winery — a Hill City institution producing outstanding wines from South Dakota fruits and honey in one of the most dramatically beautiful settings in the Great Plains.

23837 US-385, Hill City, SD 57745

Rapid City, South Dakota

Rapid City's downtown bar and restaurant scene serves the Black Hills' most important gateway city — a community where the extraordinary Mount Rushmore tourism economy, the remarkable Native American cultural heritage of the surrounding Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations, and the genuine Western character of the Black Hills create a bar culture of unusual South Dakota historical and cultural depth.

Main St, Rapid City, SD 57701

Rapid City, South Dakota

Cottonwood Bar serves Rapid City's Black Hills tourism economy and residential community with a welcoming bar atmosphere and South Dakota-produced beverages. Rapid City's year-round tourism market (Sturgis Rally, Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Black Hills) creates a bar environment that serves both South Dakota residents and visitors from across the country with genuine Western hospitality.

Rapid City, SD 57701

Rapid City, South Dakota

Depot Bar is Rapid City's most atmospheric neighborhood bar — serving the Black Hills gateway city's tourism market and residential community in a classic Western bar setting. Rapid City's unique identity as both a gateway to national monuments and an independent western city creates a bar culture that is simultaneously welcoming to tourists and genuinely authentic to South Dakota's frontier heritage.

Rapid City, SD 57701

Rapid City, South Dakota

Hay Camp Brewing Company is the Black Hills' most beloved craft brewery — a Rapid City institution producing outstanding ales and lagers that capture the wild character of the western South Dakota landscape. The Black Hills' extraordinary natural beauty and Hay Camp's consistent craft beer quality create a brewery taproom uniquely shaped by the character of America's most spectacular mountain landscape in the northern plains.

601 Kansas City St, Rapid City, SD 57701

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Fernson Brewing is South Dakota's most successful craft brewery — producing the beloved Broadcast IPA and other outstanding beers that have earned national recognition and established Sioux Falls as a craft beer destination worth visiting. Fernson's success in building a genuine South Dakota craft beer brand has helped spark the broader craft beverage renaissance that is reshaping the state's entertainment culture.

3000 W Russell St, Sioux Falls, SD 57107

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Full Circle Brewing is Sioux Falls's most acclaimed craft brewery — producing outstanding ales and lagers that represent the best of South Dakota's emerging craft beer culture. South Dakota's rapid economic growth, combined with increasingly favorable liquor laws, has catalyzed a craft beer renaissance that Full Circle is helping to lead in the state's largest city.

Sioux Falls, SD 57104

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Shenanigans is one of Sioux Falls's most popular sports bars and live music venues — a downtown Phillips Avenue establishment with multiple screens, craft beer on tap, and weekend live music that serves as a social gathering point for the city's young professional and sports fan community. South Dakota's most urban bar scene concentrates in the downtown Sioux Falls corridor, and venues like Shenanigans anchor the walkable nightlife district that draws visitors from throughout eastern South Dakota.

322 S Phillips Ave 57104