Pierre, SD Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Straggling along the east bank of the Missouri River at the center of South Dakota, PIERRE is the second smallest and by far the least sophisticated of all the US state capitals. With none of the plush hotels or fancy restaurants catering to power-broking politicos that you find in other capital cities, Pierre (pronounced "peer") is instead a typical South Dakota town, whose 15,000 residents do their best to ignore the fact that it's the seat of state government. Apart from the black-domed Capitol itself, which sits in a pleasant park at the northeast edge of downtown and is open for tours (daily … more »