The Outdoor Campus - Rapid City — Attraction in Rapid City

This is a ridiculously biased review. If someone who loves hunting and taxidermied animals wrote it, it would be far different. I'm not a native South Dakotan, and my idea of honoring nature isn't killing it and eating it or artificially preserving and displaying it. Wow. The OCW teaches a love of nature through, in part, shooting it with bows and arrows. That still stuns me. And I want to weep at all the dead animals on display there. In all fairness, though, the space (minus the glassy-eyed, taxidermied wildlife) is beautiful and they do more than highlight the many ways of eating nature. The interactive educational and video information is fascinating, and the staff is always kind. If I weren't creeped out by the grisly reproductions of living scenes through the posing of animal corpses, it would be a...

Love coming here to show im kid all the animals and we practice what they sound like. It's free it's kid friendly their books games and a large fish tank to view local fish. As well as a bull snake to see. The I door area is awsome for cool weather they offer classes you can come to for free I loved archery class. The outdoor has an area for kids to play and a large nice walking path with 2 fishing ponds and a stream if you follow up you get to a lovely park with restrooms near by. I highly recommend this free activity their is no wait and it's usually pretty quiet not many...

So worth a trip. This is set in a very busy area but its peaceful and beautiful. My friend loved the displays and I liked the fact that we had the place pretty much all to ourselves we got their right at opening, so we were able to take our time and mender through instead of being rushed off by kids or lots of people. The nature trail is a little hard to find which was what I wanted but we such a hard time finding it so we had to settle for walking around the pond they had on property but still so worth it. For it being free I was so surprised that it had as...