The Corn Palace - Mitchell South Dakota

5/27/10

When I was small child, my family made a trip from our home in the Livonia Michigan to see relatives in California. It was a great trip, and we stopped to see a lot along the way, from Mt. Rushmore (beware of the poison waiters!), to Zion National Park (chipmunks galore!) and Disneyland plus many other places. I have always vaguely remembered going to the Corn Palace http://cornpalace.com/ in Mitchell SD and figured since I wasn't too far away, I would go again.

It is a really unique building. The first Corn Palace was decorated in 1892. It was originally in a different location, but has been in it's current spot for many years. The design is changed out yearly using many different colors of corn and is pretty cool to see. The interior of the building, houses a nice sized auditorium, which also has some panels decorated with corn as well as a gift shop selling pretty much anything corn related you could possibly want, or not. This is the main tourist attraction in town, although there are a couple of museums in town also that looked like they might be interesting. The light posts (at least in the downtown area) are even decorated with an ear of corn.

Corn Palace