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Flintstones Bedrock City

US-16/US-385 jct (Bedrock City), Custer, SD

For nearly 50 years, kids could ride a miniature train past a papier-mache volcano named "Mt. St. Wilma" and pose beside a giant Dino at this Flintstones-themed campground outside Custer.

📅 1966–2015🏛️ Roadside AttractionRepurposedBuilt 1966
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Flintstones Bedrock City, US-16/US-385 jct (Bedrock City), Custer, SD
Entrance to Bedrock City · Tbennert, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

Flintstones Bedrock City opened in 1966 as a 62-acre Flintstones-themed park and campground. Guests entered past a 20-foot Dino statue and rode a miniature train through "Dinosaur Canyon," past the volcano "Mt. St. Wilma," and around "Mount Rockmore" — a parody of nearby Mount Rushmore carved with the faces of Fred, Barney, Dino, and "Mr. Granitebilt." The South Dakota park closed in 2015; by around 2019 its Flintstones theming was removed and the property rebranded as Buffalo Ridge Campground Resort.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

It featured "Mount Rockmore," a parody of Rushmore carved with cartoon faces.
A sister park in Valle, Arizona (1972) is still operating even though the South Dakota original is not.
The park closed in 2015, but its theming wasn't fully removed until around 2019.

Connected places

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Rapid City, SD
Mount Rushmore

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Bemidji, MN
Mount Rushmore

Crazy Horse Memorial

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Mount Rushmore

Iron Mountain Road

Keystone, SD
Mount Rushmore

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Nearby history

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Crazy Horse Memorial

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Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear told sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to k

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Needles Highway

SD Highway 87 (Needles Highway) · 10.5 km away
Governor Peter Norbeck personally walked and rode horseback over every foot of the route before a single machine touched

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock_City_(South_Dakota)