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Come vote for your favorite tree during this years' Custer State Park Festival of Trees!  You can view all of the trees set up by community partners and organizations at the Custer State Park Visitor Center throughout the month of December. Vote for your favorite and the decorating organization will win a prize!  Voting concludes January 1, 2022

Visitor Center Custer State Park

It’s Visit Brookings’ Annual Frost Fest! Bundle up to celebrate the season on the outdoor prairie at the Children’s Museum of South Dakota and take part in: Snow StridersSleddingSnow forts and snow paintingSnowshoeingSay “hi” to Mama T. Rex and MaxStay for lunch or have a snack or hot chocolate at Café Coteau (Open 8 am to 2 pm Tuesday-Saturday)(Events are snow-permitting)

Children's Museum of South Dakota

Washington Pavilion

From mid-November through the week prior to Christmas, you can obtain a permit and cut down your own ponderosa pine, spruce or juniper tree in the Black Hills National Forest. Permits can be obtained at all National Forest Service offices in the area (except the Hell Canyon Ranger District office in Custer), several surrounding National Grassland offices, some private businesses and by mail. Visit ...

Black Hills National Forest

Bring your friends and family to see the dazzling lights and hear holiday music in Winter Wonderland at Falls Park in Sioux Falls. Featured are more than 40 wreaths, 270 decorated trees, 275 decorated light poles, more than 25 miles of strings of lights, a half mile of rope lights, and multiple animated lighted features. Falls Park lights up nightly, at 5 p.m. until 12 midnight, from November 19, ...

Falls Park

South Dakota State Capitol

Stokes-Thomas Lake City Park, Lake Kampeska

Check website for schedules

Check website for 12/4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 23 & 24

Hill City Station

Join Storybook Island for our Christmas Nights of Light. Walk through the beautiful park. We put up almost 20 miles of lights. Stroll through the park with your hot cocoa, eggnog, or a Santa Shake. The train and carousel will also be in operation. The cost of admission is $3per person, all ages. We accept cash or credit card.

5:30pm to 8:30pm

5:30pm - 8:30pm

5:30pm - 8:30pm

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Storybook Island

Seasonal displays, model trains photos with Santa. Start a holiday tradition.  Adults $3.50 and Families $10.00  

Hours 10am - 5pm

Hours 11am - 5pm

Hours 11am - 5pm

Hours 11am - 5pm

TREES AND TRAINS Exhibit

TREES AND TRAINS Exhibit

South Dakota State Railroad Museum

BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL tells the Tony® and Grammy® Award-Winning inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. Along the ...

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Sioux Falls

Also a showing this date starting at 7:30pm

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Sioux Falls

Mary W. Sommervold Hall, Washington Pavilion

This free family-friendly event happens every year the day after Thanksgiving!   Enjoy shopping, specials and old-world charm in Hill City as we start the month-long festivities that comprise Hill City’s Olde Tyme Christmas! Take a ride on the 1880 Train to the North Pole and add some sparkle to your day by viewing the Trees & Trains exhibit at ...

Join us on Friday, November 26 as we light up the night in Belle Fourche! The annual chili feed at the community hall hosted by Belle Silver Lining, a parade hosted by Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce, the lighting of the tree ceremony, and the beautiful light display hosted by CONBA.  

The Holiday Lighted Parade will kick off the holiday season in Downtown Watertown on Kemp Avenue beginning at 6:30 p.m. This event is annually held by the Watertown Business Association and has become a tradition for many in the Watertown area. Bring your lawn chair and hot chocolate and sit along Kemp Avenue to view the parade. Fireworks start the parade and Santa & fireworks to finish the parade. 

Join the community of Huron for a musical holiday parade! The parade begins at 7pm at Market Street and onto 21st Street on Dakota Avenue.  Lighted floats, music and Santa! Bring the whole family and kick off the holidays!

The Goss Opera House invites you to kick off the holiday season with dinner and the holiday classic "Christmas Vacation". Get your tickets ($20 - $30) go to https://www.thegossoperahouse.com/events/  Enjoy at great dinner prepared by Mavericks Steak & Cocktails. ** IMPORTANT ** - Food will not be served in the balcony. - Floor seats will have dinner served at their table shortly after ...

The Goss Opera House

Join us for the 29th Annual Parade of Lights, as we light up the city and welcome in the 2021 Holiday Season! The Parade of Lights has become a family tradition, attracting thousands who have reveled in the coming joy of the season. We invite you to be part of the 29th year of this growing holiday tradition! Holiday floats with festive decorations and plenty of lights will line the streets of historic ...

Downtown Sioux Falls on Phillips Avenue

Spark your holiday spirit at the fourth annual Mead Hall of Trees! View up to 50 stunning Christmas trees decorated by local businesses and civic groups all month long! Kids and adults alike will enjoy the Tonka Toy Exhibit that will be on display during the seasons featuring aorund 100 pieces from teh private collection of local collector Micah James. Winter hours Monday - Saturday 12pm - 4pm. Extended ...

Mead Cultural Education Center

Start off your holiday shopping with us at the Fall into Winter Craft & Vendor Show in Madison, SD. Over 125 Vendor Booths: Arts, Fashion, Accessories, Home Consultant Products, Novelties, Wooden Art, Holiday Decor & Gifts, Canned & Homemade Food Items and much much more! Two locations, conveniently located across the street from each other located on the 1200/1300 blocks of North Washington ...

Dakota Prairie Playhouse DSU Fieldhouse/National Guard Armory

BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL tells the Tony® and Grammy® Award-Winning inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. Along the ...

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Sioux Falls

Also a showing this date starting at 7:30pm

Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Sioux Falls

Mary W. Sommervold Hall, Washington Pavilion