The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota Review

The chance to visit a live, active dig site shouldn't be passed up. It was a great way to get out of the sweltering sun, as well as being quite fun and informative! If you ever find yourself in the area, give it a visit!

Simply loved this place! The people working on the dig were fantastic about taking the time away from their work to talk to visitors and answer all questions. Everybody should visit this place at least once in their lives!

Great fun if other parents know how to handle thier children.

Quite amazing....even if you have seen other sites for ancient animal/reptile bones!! Very well done.

Just looking at the bones & knowing there was a life 240 millions years ago & the discovery? You get a feeling that you cannot describe and start imagening life at that time.. it isnt something in ur hands... i wish i can support and join them

I had a fun time, but the kids (ages 6 and 9) were bored

Fun to see all the bones and interesting to learn about archeology.

Visiting the Black Hills and ran across this, it was worth the stop plan about an hour or so. My 15 year old son was interested as much as a 15 year old could be.

My grandson was mesmerized at this place! The staff was very nice too!!

Great educational museum. Very friendly staff. The history of the mammoths is amazing as well as how long this took to form. How deep the out goes surprised me. Haven't been here in 40 years and it sure has changed for the better.

If you like history, bones, rocks, a must stop on your Black Hills visit

If you're into paleontology at all, this is a must see...drive out of your way to make it here. Interact with anthropologist's.

Amazing! The video, the tour app are great ideas!!
Loved it!!

Incredible place to visit and learn, might not seem much but it's very up close and personal, makes you think about the animals and history of the place.

Sobering display of mammoth proportions. Great staff. Really cool site. Must see if your in the area!

What an incredible dig sight and you can be right on top of it.

The family enjoyed this ongoing excavation. We had an excellent guided tour and had time to explore on our own. We were also able to talk with the people excavating and they were wonderful! (You don't get to do any digging yourself.)

Very interesting. A good tour, and you could spend as much time as you needed to really study the dig.

Fascinating and very educational. My daughter was very sad that all the mammoths died.

Haven t seen a site like this before. They tourist trap it up a bit but otherwise it is cool to see an active ish dig going on. It s a short video and tour of the site about $10 adults and $8 kids

If you happen to drive through SD, it is a place you should check it out especially you like some history of animal that already extinct! You will have a real exp with the left of ancient Mammoth!

Very interesting information about mammoth and the ongoing dig.

The work that they are doing here is phenomenal, and I'm so glad we made the journey from Custer to check it out. While the entire staff was friendly, Dr. Mead was exceptional. We had the privilege of meeting him when the staff learned how our daughter was very interested in archaeology. He treated her like the most important person in the room, and was very encouraging. While I recognize that's not a normal part of the experience for most visitors, it shows the level of dedication and hospitality among the staff and volunteers, and we were very grateful.

Really great exhibit with extremely informative tour guides. I had a lot more fun than I had anticipated and learned even more! Well worth the price of admission.

They give a nice tour here. Very informative tour of the actual dig site. Inside and air conditioned. Big gift shop.

Awesome staff. Zach was our leader for the kids advanced dig. He is energetic, freindly and knowledgable. Kids loved it. The site is gorgeous and really well set up. Worth every penny.

Kids loved it. Staff answered all their questions patiently.

Very awesome!! The tour was well worth it!! Great staff!! amazing history!!

WOW, they have found around 60 mammoths in the dig site. There is an excellent example of an entire mammoth during the tour that shoes how his legs are laid out, spinal vertebrae, and more. The guides give great examples and education during the tour.

It's so neat to tour a live excavation site. Fascinating. Learned a lot and got a chance to see working archeologist.

Family enjoyed the tour and we were even able to bring our little furry ones along.

Great small museum, donated by a local it keeps all findings to display there

Great tour, friendly staff, worth every penny. If you have plans to return within the year make sure to get the return pass, you can get back in for free.

My, how it has grown in 25+ years since my husband had been there last. They have uncovered so many pieces of history.

A must! You won t believe your eyes! The story of how it was discovered and came to be what it is today is a shining example of philanthropy. Absolutely amazing exhibits and the dig site is an ongoing process. I never knew the mammoths were hunted by man. Fascinating! Other extinct mammals were caught in this sinkhole which trapped and preserved for us to see today.

It was so moving being there and seeing the past. Seeing something that used to be alive and is now being brought back to be studied and remembered. For anyone interested in fossils needs to go here. How else will you get to go to a active dig site?

This place was incredibly interesting. Took the family had a good time.

Pretty good attraction in Hot Springs SD for the family. The Mammoth dig and bones are pretty cool. Takes about an hour to do the tour and walk around site. Actual digging occurs only in July. If you have some extra time after Mt Rushmore it's worth checking out.

Awesome place. Very informative and staff was really friendly. Great place to visit again and again!

Amazing!!!! The coolest stop in the Black Hills. Where else are you going to see an up close dig. It's just amazing. If you don't stop you are missing a big part of history.

Very interesting history this place has. If you or your kids are in to paleontology at all, this is for you! It's cool that it's an active dig site and you can see them at work. Only downside is the exhibit hall itself is small and there aren't a lot of interactive exhibits for the kids so my little one was bored quickly.

Really interesting place. Definitely worth a visit!

It was interesting to hear the story of the place. It was a little more commercialized than I was expecting, but interesting anyway.

I had written the mammoth site a while back stating that my sister had passed away and that I was taking my nieces and nephews there, I asked prices , and was hoping for a miracle cause we did not have Enough stop in on our short vacation. Unbelievably I received coupons in the mail before we even took off for vacation. I was very surprised and just wanted to thank everyone at the mammoth site, because the kids absolutely loved it and we had an amazing time! They went Above and beyond, thank you!

My daughters and I arrived at the site by mistake. The wind was blowing and we had been choosing roads that it would be easier to travel on to get to our campground. We ran into the site, which was a thrill to all of us. we enjoyed the site and I have gone as far to say it was my favorite place on our 3 week trip. Lovely, educational and a marvel.

The tour was fantastic. Very educational. Our tour guide was fantastic.

The mammoth site was awesome. When we first got there we saw the large space outside and assumed we had to dig outside.

Luckily we went inside and found out the dig site was inside. The dig site was great and the museum afterwards was cool. I learned a lot of interesting things and enjoyed looking at the fossils. This is a great place for kids

Very informative! Learned a lot of prehistoric history.

Awesomeness all over. The junior program is great for the kids

This museum was fascinating. I thought we'd visit for less than an hour, but we were there almost 2 hrs. The tour takes you completely around the dig, while Paleontologists work exposing more bones.

Amazing tour of the Mommoth Site! The guide did a great job explaining all the info about how the dig is being conducted and preserved.

This is one of the most interesting places I've seen, ever. truly remarkable. Put ii on your itinerary.

Option to self-tour is a time saver if you aren't interested in the group tour. Some excellent and varied displays in the exhibit center made it much more interesting if you want something beyond the digs.

Stopped through with my daughter in 2018. We both absolutely LOVED it! What an amazing spot to discover as we drove across this beautiful country. Thank you for this important and marvelous work!

Absolutely worth a visit. Be prepared for a short video and guided tour. After the tour you are free to roam.

Great place. Must see when you are in South Dakota!

This was neat to see the mammoth bones and get a short history of how they came to be there.

These mammoth's misfortune made for a treasure trove of fossils!

Get to walk around the site and see the bones as they lay.

Absolutely worth stopping here. I have driven by for years never taking the time and I should have. It is super interesting. I was amazed at the number of Mammoths in the sink hole and how well preserved they were.