Prairie Homestead | A Badlands, South Dakota Attraction.

Welcome to Prairie Homestead.

A Must-See Attraction on your trip to the Badlands of South Dakota.

Your Kids Will Love Our Kids.

You’ll have great fun petting the barnyard animals.

See the Dogs Barkin’ In The Yard.

See a real Prairie Dog town and laugh at their funny antics.

Point Your Wagons West.

Located just off of I-90 at the Eastern Gate to South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, we are the perfect stop to learn how life was for the early settlers.

Who Let the Dogs Out?

See our Large Prairie Dog Town. These Prairie Dogs came to the Prairie Homestead with the cooperation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

Experience the life of an early pioneer.

You’ll have great fun while learning what life was like during the pioneer days.

See an original pioneer sod home.

Explore this unique pioneer home, built in 1909 of dirt sod and a dirt roof.

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"Journey into the visual memories of the homestead days."

LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES.

About Us

The Prairie Homestead, an original sod home of Mr. & Mrs. Ed Brown, was built in 1909. It is typical of the homes and outbuildings that pioneers built.

This home is one of the last remaining original sod homes intact today. These pioneers played a very important part in settling the Great Plains.

Our Tours

Take a glimpse back in time at how life was for early pioneers by taking the interpretive walking tour.

Watch our informative movie before heading out to explore the old out buildings and sod house. You will feel like you stepped off the pages of “Little House on the Prairie”.

Getting Here

Exit 131 south of I-90 2 ½ miles on HWy 240, ½ mile north of Badlands National Park

The Homestead sits just one half mile North of the east entrance to South Dakota’s Badlands National Park on Hwy 240. Located 20 miles east of the town of Wall and twenty miles west of Kadoka.