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Explore history at this unique park that preserves the officers' quarters, stone barracks, powder magazine, guard house and other frontier-era buildings that once made up Fort Sisseton.
This 1864 fort, atop the Coteau des Prairies (or hills of the prairies), offers a rare glimpse into life on the Western frontier. The fort's name comes from the nearby Sisseton Native American tribe.
It is now a picturesque state park that showcases the area's history. You can learn more at the visitor center's interpretive displays and from guided tours.
There is also a campground, camping cabins, groupt rental sites, boat ramp, picnic area with a shelter and marked walking trails.
The Fort Sisseton Festival, held the first full weekend of June, is a rendezvous featuring cavalry, fiddlers, square dancing, draft horse pulling, tomahawk throwing, a melodrama and other excitement.
Fort Sisseton's Frontier Christmas is held the second full weekend in December and features Christmas crafts, baking in wood stoves, and sleighrides.
After you visit the park, take in the intriguing sight where the water flow goes both north and south at the North-South Continental Divide on Lake Traverse along the South Dakota and Minnesota border. It's located southeast of the park within 10 miles of I-29, along S.D. Hwy. 10.
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The park offers a chance to experience frontier history.
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