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The Corps of Discovery Welcome Center staff and volunteers greet visitors and travelers traveling into northeast Nebraska as well as southeast South Dakota, year round. The newly built facility houses clean restrooms, complimentary coffee, free tourist information for Nebraska and South Dakota. A lovely gift shop filled with Nebraska and South Dakota made products, an Art Gallery sharing local artist works as well as occasional historical museum artifacts and traveling exhibits. The 1.5-mile Discovery Nature Trail graces the surrounding grounds.
Located just south of Yankton, South Dakota, up on the bluff along the Pan American Highway 81, the Corps of Discovery Welcome Center offers visitors a panoramic view of the scenic Missouri Valley that Lewis and Clark once explored. Visitors may browse through the gift shop and gallery, share in some of the many monthly activities, have picnic on |
one of the picnic tables with grills that are near blue birdhouses overlooking the bluff. They may even get back to nature in hiking the Discovery Nature Trail that shares scenic terrain, birds, and other small animals as well as historical information, pets are welcome and they as well as children will enjoy scampering after ground squirrels and bunnies that make their home here.
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The center was dedicated on Memorial Day 2001 and is a non-profit 501 (C) organization whose council’s mission is to promote and share our diverse and unique
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Shown above: parttime state guides Mary Rose Pinkelman, Janet Ekmann and Ruan Pohlman
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culture, history, and landscape of northeast Nebraska and southeast South Dakota, thereby enhancing the economic prosperity of our communities. |
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The organization is staffed by twelve volunteer Executive Board Members one part-time paid Executive Director, three part-time paid Nebraska Tour guides, several devoted volunteers, and 88 council members. Go to CONTACT US for more information on how you can share in this venture.
We look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful center.
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