Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

A Day In The Park: Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is probably not a planned destination on your national park trip, but it’s a worthy stop along the way. At this park unit, you’ll learn the reasons for placing “a vast arsenal of nuclear missiles” beneath the prairies and farmlands of the Great Plains in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado.

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By Rebecca Latson - September 8th, 2025

Photography In The National Parks: My 11 Favorite Images From 2024

Happy New Year! Continuing a tradition begun in 2015, Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson discusses her 11 favorite shots captured during her 2024 national park visits. She tells the why, the where, and the how for each image.

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By Rebecca Latson - January 21st, 2025

2024 Year In Review | Photography In The Parks

It’s almost a wrap for 2024, and the year provided plenty of trips and photo ops for contributing photographer Rebecca Latson, who provides a recap of 12 months of park photography articles published in the Traveler. How many of these have you read?

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By Rebecca Latson - December 25th, 2024

Three Days In And Around Badlands National Park

You could be excused if you only chose to spend a couple of hours touring Badlands National Park from your car, since there aren’t many trails and most of what you can see is from the road and overlooks. That would be a shame, though, because there is plenty to do in and around Badlands for a good three-day stay.

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May 20th, 2024

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Pause For Thought: A Visit To Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

A visit to Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is a slice of Cold War history, when the United States and the former Soviet Union were locked and loaded for thermonuclear war upon each other.

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May 18th, 2024

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National Parks Quiz And Trivia #74: The Midwest Edition

South Dakota has its fair share of units within the National Park System, several of which are within a couple hours’ (or less) drive time of each other. So this latest quiz and trivia piece is about some of those Midwest park units.

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May 6th, 2024

Photography In The National Parks: What’s In My Camera Bag Redux

How many of you have changed your mindset about one or more aspects of photography, cameras, lenses, camera packs, or travel over the years? Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson didn’t realize just how much some of her own photographic views have changed until rereading an interview written 11 years ago between herself and Traveler editor Kurt Repanshek.

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April 23rd, 2024

Virtual Tours Reveal Look Into Cold War Resources At Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Modern technologies allow unique opportunities to explore all manner of locations. To mark National Virtual Vacation Day on March 30, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is releasing a series of virtual reality tours of the preserved Delta Flight sites.

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March 22nd, 2019

Around The Parks: Higher Fees, Winter In Yosemite, Good Work In Grand Teton

Higher fees are coming your way for touring the Delta-O1 launch facility at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, the Mariposa Grove at Yosemite National Park is open for winter, and friends of Cuyahoga Valley National Park have raised millions for a new visitor center. Those are just some of the stories from around the National Park System.

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December 6th, 2018

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site To Celebrate New Park Film

As the summer season comes to an end, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota invites the public to celebrate the completion of the new park orientation film, Beneath The Plains: The Minuteman Missile On Alert. This is the first official film produced for the park, and complements the exhibits installed two years ago.

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August 17th, 2018

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