Welcome to the gold-filled gulch of Deadwood, situated in the highest reaches of South Dakota’s fabled Black Hills.

Settled by a wave of eager immigrants and hard-working miners in the 1870s, Deadwood remains a Wild West town of mythic proportions – attracting two million annual visitors lured to the lore of the American frontier and the scenic beauty of the surrounding mountains.

Historic Main Street in Deadwood, SD

This is the town that witnessed Wild Bill Hickok gunned down while playing poker with his back to the door. These are the same streets that felt the footprints of Calamity Jane Canary, a one-woman cyclone who claimed she could out-drink, out-swear and out-spit any man – and usually did! Wild Bill and Calamity Jane are buried side-by-side in Deadwood’s Mt. Moriah Cemetery, among other captivating characters of the Wild West.

In the late 1980s, visitors to the town of Deadwood discovered boarded-up storefronts, crumbling facades and a community with a once proud past that was slowly suffering from the ravages of time. That was before an unlikely benefactor – limited stakes gaming - gave Deadwood a new lease on life and fueled the transformation of an entire town.

More than a decade and $150 million later, Deadwood ranks as the largest restoration and preservation project ever undertaken in the U.S. This is the community of 1,300 residents that decided to save itself. Today, Victorian facades, brick streets, period lighting and colorful trolleys greet visitors to this, one of the few communities in America listed as a National Historic Landmark.

We’re glad you decided to give Deadwood a look!