Hotels in Kadoka

A frontier outpost where the Great Plains meet the otherworldly Badlands, this tiny town serves as your last chance for pie before entering a landscape that appears borrowed from another planet. At Kadoka Lake, locals fish while trading tales of weather that can change faster than you can say 'prairie thunderstorm.' The annual Kadoka Rodeo brings cowboys who aren't playing dress-up – these are the real deal, competing with the same grit their grandparents showed. After exploring the fossil-rich buttes nearby, return to Main Street where café owners remember your order and genuinely want to hear where you're from. Chamberlain Pass offers views that explain why early settlers simultaneously feared and fell in love with this unforgiving but magnificent landscape.