If you’re street tripping throughout South Dakota on Interstate 90, it’s onerous to overlook billboards promoting the Corn Palace within the city of Mitchell. Drawing over a half million guests every year and maybe greatest described as an agricultural showplace, the Corn Palace showcases artworks created utilizing native grasses, grains, and twelve colours of corn to create life-size murals inside and out of doors the constructing.
Interior Murals on the Corn Palace
What to See on the Corn Palace
Recently renovated with a grand entry, interactive reveals, the set up of light-up domes, and entry to the constructing’s second flooring gallery area, guests are welcome to expertise the bigger murals situated on the constructing’s exterior from the walk-out constructing and remark deck. In late fall, the earlier yr’s outside murals are stripped one-by-one from the constructing and redecorated in response to a brand new and totally different theme. This can be an awesome spot for a selfie or group photograph.
The Corn Palace mosaics may be discovered inside and outside the constructing. (photograph by Heather Lusk)
Admission to the Corn Palace is all the time free; there’s a small reward store situated throughout the constructing in addition to one other reward store throughout the road. You’ll discover concessions throughout the constructing and eating places situated in inside strolling distance throughout the downtown Mitchell enterprise district. Before you go, lookup the dates for the Corn Palace Festival, an annual “overflow” occasion with carnival rides, meals, and leisure.
Where to Stay in Mitchell, SD
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