It is clean and quiet and has all the amenities I really enjoy going here!

Beautiful place with lots of available resources. Definitely a must see for sportsmen coming to the Black Hills

We just walked the trail for the first time and it was great for all ages. Met a few friends in nature like a turtle and butterfly. All in all was a 10/10

Great organization. Great people! Fun activities - I took the Ellsworth Air Force Base fly fishing course here and it was well done. Thank you!

This place is amazing! We came on free try canoeing and kayaking day! Great friendly very helpful staff! My older 2 kids (9&11) took a canoe together and had a heck of a time figuring it out, but one of the instructors came out in the water to their aide to teach them right away and had nothing but joy in helping them! I cant say enough good about this place and its staff! Thank you for the experience & the fun!

Want to learn about the outdoors? Come to Outdoor Campus West! So far theyve shown me: Ice fishing, turkey calling, small arms firing, predator hunting, and archery! The staff are all extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about teaching respect for the outdoors. Shout out to Laurie and Keith!

Family had fun and got to experience nature without getting eaten!!

Wonderful place to bring the family. They offer many classes and the campus is beautiful. Their mud day is super fun! Definitely worth a visit and most things are free of charge!

It has something for everyone. Both inside and along its nature trails. With diaramas of wildlife and a aquarium of many different fish. It has many occupations for the young and mature mind. A pond to learn to kayak and fish a archery range. Hunters safety courses, and many groups meeting to promote photography, wildlife and water conservation, and disabled veterans fly fishing. There is something for everyone. Contact the Campus for classes and activities hosted daily and through out the year.

Wow. This place is amazing. It has trails to walk, or you can go inside and see all the native animals to the area and watch educational videos!

Great nature walk! Closed inside for now.

Very helpful staff. Bright friendly building. Good place to stop if you dont know the Black Hills

Bucolic location. Very tranquil. Very peaceful.

I took my 2 year old and we all had a fun time. The trails in the back were really neat we will come back!

Great ace to have some outdoor fun

Beautiful park and venue.

I always enjoy coming to Outdoor Campus. It is free and embraces learning through exploration. When my kids were little we came to some classes and family nights. Now we come when we have company to give an overview of Black Hills wildlife and land.

We were very happy with the info we were given. We will be back when we have more time.

5/13/2020-Drove to campus because the website says you are open! Sign on door says not. Please update your web site! Thanks!

Quick and easy way to have some father son time.

Lots of fun for the family and a great place to learn about our local habitats!

I had fun in my field trip thanks outdoor campus for letting us go their hope u have a great day

The inside is fantastic and educational. The outside portion needs some cleaning up and more for interaction. We enjoyed the water crossing and the free canoe/kayak event.

So much fun!! So many things to do

Learning while exercising had a great lil expedition at the Outdoor campus west. Loved it! Plan to return during regular season to take part in the awesome activities they do here.

My coworker and I brought a group of our teens here for a summer field trip, where we participated in archery and canoeing before we sat out back under a covered area to enjoy our lunch. It was the best field trip we had been on! The staff was so friendly, helpful, & fun! They greeted us right away, were hands on with the kids, & did an amazing job making the activities fun and exciting! I cannot put into words the adoration I have for this place and the people & all they did for us, but I can say we will continue to come back!

Love this place! Friendly and knowledgeable staff and always something fun to do. Great for families who are outdoor enthusiasts and/or with children of all ages.

This is one of the best additions to the Rapid City area. A beautiful indoor wildlife display and aquarium that young and old alike will enjoy. If youre up for a walk try the surrounding walking trails. Lots of nature to enjoy.

Wish the online hours were updated went there expecting it to be open only to have a disappointed child...normally 5 stars tho

Perfect place for little ones to learn about the outdoors!

Great place to go if you want to learn somthing new or just have free time and want to get outside and not spend any money. There archery course and range has been a great addition and somthing that this community needed for a longtime. My only complaint is that some of the bags at the range need replaced.

Took the grandkids. Lots of educational fun!

Enjoyed using the distance targets as well as using the trail targets.

Beautiful building, great displays. My 11yo boys too a class here how to trick a fish the staff was very friendly and did their best to help this kids catch something in their little pond they have onsite. Didnt teach them much, but they had fun!

This is a fun place inside and out for both adults and children.

Great place for the kids and they have a nice archery range

The outdoor campus is a wonderful place so glad they built it in Rapid City all kinds of activities going on all year long they have archery fishing kayaking most anything outdoors you name it they have a activity for it one of the best things is most everything is free

A great little park. Beware of protective mama geese!

Great place to spend some time on a nice day. Beautiful setting, lots of space and different things to do. Walk paths, leashed dogs allowed, with kayak and canoe rentals available (very small pond though).

Its a really beautiful facility. Plenty to do and learn. I got help with my license, and look forward to using the new archery range.

Very nice facility. Good place to learn s little about the outdoors

Lots of programs for all ages. Excellent taxidermy. Super helpful staff. Great place to go learn what it was like b4 the phone screen epidemic. Basic human survival. Something that is missing in todays world.

This is a very great and fun place for kids and adults. I used to volunteer here when it first opened and got to see the ribbon cutting, I can definitely say the people that work here and volunteer are amazing! They have kids classes and adult classes and the best part is its free! I would definitely take your kids here to see the animals and learn some stuff or take a class.

Amazing place for kids. Mostly everything here is free. I took a four year old little boy here, and he spent almost half the day just adventuring out, playing and learning. There is a large fish aquarium, videos on wild life, taxidermy wildlife up all over with plaques to learn about them, and many interactive activities for the kids. During summer months they also offer much more, but outside.

Fun free activities for families! Follow them on Facebook to keep up or you will miss out!

Fun and FREE! Trails throughout the campus. Inside is a giant fresh water aquarium. They offer free educational classes throughout the year, a fantastic way to familiarize yourself with the area and prepare for your outdoor adventure. We attended a free try it day where we could try kayaking and canoeing under the guidance of their friendly staff and volunteers.

Love the outdoor archery rang.

Very cool place!

Took Family Pictures there. A lovely place for that...a very nice Park area. Worth a visit.

This is a great place to practice archery

Plenty of trails and activities for children and adults. Good for a whole day or a couple hours. Check their schedule for classes ranging archery to camping to Dutch oven cooking. All for free. Absolutely wonderful.

Great place for visitors and kids

Awesome archery range.

Always a great place to visit

Great family experience here.. especially if you like outdoor activities.

So much to see and learn about! The people are great and very helpful. Kids learned a lot!

Awesome...great place for children and the people are so friendly.

Kids and grown-ups will love this! The staff/volunteers were very welcoming and engaged the kids. There is a variety of activities to do, or it is fun to just look around.

My 3 grandsons learned about ice fishing and actually caught a few fish! Awesomeness!

This is a beautiful place to escape without leaving town. Theres a ton of beautiful mature trees that surround you away from hustle and bustle of Rapid City. Perfect for photography or picnics.

It was just like the great Outdoors

A great place to bring the kids. The walking trails is just the right distance for little legs. The classes they offer are wonderful and very educational.

Got to walk the trails. 1st time there. Hope to see inside next time

Treated us like really good friend

Great place for outdoor education. Bring the young ones and help preserve our beautiful black hills with educational activities and fun stuff to do!

Not open.

Very interactive, and the staff are wonderful. We went to a Kyaking event, and it was really cool.

We love the outdoor campus west! It is FREE. You can walk on the trial or hang out inside of the building which is kid friendly!

Always fun no matter how many times we go...

Awesome place with great indoor exhibits and wonderful outdoor trails!

Super cool lots of really neat activities for kids to do its free the displays inside the building are really neat Rockwall is definitely something everyone should try fishing was fun definitely a challenge because of the turtles that tried to eat your bait. Would go back again.

This place is awesome, and these people are doing amazing work!

Easy trails, endless spurs, with varying difficulty. Small ponds, unique structures.

Gorgeous facility and grounds. This place has plenty of fun outdoor activities for all ages and is free for the public.

It is a Wonderful place. The Entire family can enjoy this adventure!

Always taking a bus load of kids here they always seem to enjoy it

This is an awesome place for learning and meeting up with friends, new or old. Thanks

Love taking my kids here. So much fun.

They have lots of activities for kids to learn from.

Awesome, great kid experience

It was great seeing all the kids fishing and having a great time

Great for the outdoor family fun. Very kid friendly.

This is a ridiculously biased review. If someone who loves hunting and taxidermied animals wrote it, it would be far different. Im not a native South Dakotan, and my idea of honoring nature isnt killing it and eating it or artificially preserving and displaying it. Wow. The OCW teaches a love of nature through, in part, shooting it with bows and arrows. That still stuns me. And I want to weep at all the dead animals on display there.In all fairness, though, the space (minus the glassy-eyed, taxidermied wildlife) is beautiful and they do more than highlight the many ways of eating nature. The interactive educational and video information is fascinating, and the staff is always kind.If I werent creeped out by the grisly reproductions of living scenes through the posing of animal corpses, it would be a fascinating experience.

Love the wilderness trails, try it night is always a blast, my kids always have fun here

Great activities for kids. No cost. All funded by hunting licenses.

This was pretty boring. The exploring was not big enough it all lead to some random houses! The tree house was not even a tree House.

It is always a peaceful place to stroll around.

Its a nice park, and the trails allow for some nice time alone. However, it does get a little boring after a while, especially after visiting more than once.

Great, short easy nature trails. Loads of wildlife.

Excellent place to visit

Wonderful activities

Lots of fun and free things to do with the kids.

Very enjoyable experience for people of all ages.

Great playground, cool educational area.

Great spot to take any young kid interested in wildlife!

Love to take my kids here

This place is just great for all ages.

Really cool place!!

Informative, attractive and interesting.

Great handgun class tonight