Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

National Historic Site · South Dakota

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Glass structure over the silo allows visitors to look down at the missile
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  • Caution

    Warning about GPS Systems!

    Vehicle Navigation Systems and GPS units may provide inaccurate information—sending drivers the wrong way on one-way roads, leading them to dead ends in remote areas, or sending them on roads which are impassable. Use the Interstate exits for wayfinding.

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Hours

Delta-09 Missile Silo

Every day9:00AM - 3:00PM

Coming up:

  • Sep 6 – May 17: Winter Hours
  • Nov 26: Thanksgiving Day (closed)

Visitors are invited to go inside the fenced compound and look down into the silo at a Minuteman missile in its historic state, protected by a glass viewing enclosure. A narrated ranger guided tour of Delta-09 is available year-round using your cell phone. Inclement weather may close this site on occasion.

Delta-01 Launch Control Facility
Every day9:00AM - 3:00PM

Coming up:

  • Sep 6 – May 17: Winter Hours
  • Nov 26: Thanksgiving Day (closed)

A recorded audio tour at Delta-01 is available for all visitors that guides you to the front gate of Delta-01.

To enter the Delta-01 facility, visitors need to attend a ranger-guided tour. Due to the size of the elevator and the confined space underground, advance reservations are required and tours are limited to 6 visitors at a time. Inclement weather may close this site on occasion.

Visitor centers

Minuteman Missile NHS Visitor Center

Minuteman Missile NHS Visitor Center

Every day8:00AM - 4:00PM

Coming up:

  • Sep 6 – May 17: Winter Hours
  • Nov 26: Thanksgiving Day (closed)

For the summer season the visitor center will be open daily, from 8 am to 4 pm.

Visitor center page on nps.gov

About this park

During the Cold War, a vast arsenal of nuclear missiles were placed in the Great Plains. Hidden in plain sight, for thirty years 1,000 missiles were kept on constant alert; hundreds remain today. The Minuteman Missile remains an iconic weapon in the American nuclear arsenal. It holds the power to destroy civilization, but is meant as a nuclear deterrent to maintain peace and prevent war.