South Dakota’s
Best Cities for Sleep

The Mount Rushmore State was named after the Dakota and Lakota indigneous tribes that once inhabited the state in large numbers. South Dakota was admitted to the Union in 1889 and is the 5th least populous state in the country. The state is part of both the Midwest and the Great Plains regions. South Dakota is home to beautiful Badlands National Park, a 242,000-acre area of dramatic pinnacles and buttes. 

Interesting facts about South Dakota:

• South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial was created between 1927 and 1941 by carving the faces of four presidents into a granite mountain in the Black Hills area 
• The state flower is the pasque flower, a purple perennial herb that grows wild on the South Dakota prairies
• Famous T-Rex dinosaur Sue was discovered in 1990 near the Badlands of South Dakota
• Jewel Cave in the Black Hills is the third largest cave in the world
• The state’s many lakes and rivers give South Dakota more shoreline than Florida

South Dakota is the 17th largest state by area and has just 11 people per square mile. Given the state’s wide open spaces, peaceful sleep would seem like a given. Or is it? Let’s take a look at how folks sleep in cities like Sioux Falls and Rapid City and see who tops our list.