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Cascade Springs Resort

SD Highway 71 (Cascade Springs), Cascade Springs, SD

Developers platted a 36-block resort city around a spring gushing 2,000 gallons of warm water a minute and planned a four-story, hundred-room hotel — today only one building of that boomtown dream still stands.

📅 1888–present🏛️ Ghost TownClosedBuilt 1888
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The story

Founded in 1888 about nine miles south of Hot Springs, Cascade Springs was a planned resort community banking on a warm mineral spring producing roughly 2,000 gallons per minute — even larger in volume than the springs feeding Hot Springs itself. Plans called for a 36-block town and a four-story, hundred-room hotel, but the grand resort never materialized. Only the Allen Bank Building — which doubled as the resort's bath house and sanitarium — survives; it was listed on the National Register in 1984 as "the only surviving building of a failed resort community." The warm cascades still flow, now a Forest Service swimming and picnic spot.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The spring produces about 2,000 gallons of warm water per minute — developers thought it could out-draw Hot Springs.
The 1888 plan called for a 36-block town and a 4-story, 100-room hotel that was never built.
Only one building survives, listed on the National Register in 1984 specifically as a failed-resort relic.

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Nearby history

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1800 US Highway 18 Bypass · 11.5 km away
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Pioneer Museum

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Battle Mountain Sanitarium

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Congress built a soldiers' home in Hot Springs specifically so disabled Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans coul

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River Street Historic District · 13.2 km away
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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Fall_River_County,_South_Dakota