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Lemmon
is a town of approximately 1,400 located in Perkins County in northwestern South Dakota. It is home to the world's largest Petrified Wood Park, which fills an entire block of the downtown area and is built entirely of petrified wood, fossils and stone. The park features a wishing well, a waterfall and a castle. The castle weighs in at 300 tons and boasts towering spires and turrets. There are also two museums inside the part that are both built entirely of petrified wood. If you look closely, you can find dinosaur claws, bird tracks and fossilized snakes in the petrified wood. The town of Lemmon also offers a 9-hole golf course, an airport, two convenience stores, a variety store, a hardware store, a grocery store, and several restaurants. Lemmon is near the Grand River Museum, which is located along Highway 12 and features exhibits on creation science, fossils, Native Americans, cowboys and ranch life, a full-scale tipi and a model of the Ark. For outdoor recreational activities, Shade Hill is about 12 miles south of Lemmon. It offers swimming, boating, hiking, picnicking, camping and fishing for walleye, catfish, and bass. Shade Hill Reservoir is one of western South Dakota's largest lakes with more than 5,000 surface acres of fun for everyone.
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Lemmon Vacation Rentals
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Lemmon Hotels and Resorts
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Lemmon Weather & Climate
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Northwestern South Dakota has an interior continental climate with four distinct seasons. Weather ranges from hot summers with low humidity to extremely cold winters and high winds. It is not unusual for South Dakota to have severe hot, dry spells in the summer with the temperature climbing above 100 °F for days or weeks at a time. Winters are cold with high temperatures in January averaging below freezing and low temperatures averaging below 10 °F in most of the state. The precipitation in northwestern South Dakota is semi-arid, with around 15 inches of annual precipitation, compared to 25 inches annually in the southeast portion of the state.
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| Month |
High Temp |
Low Temp |
Rainfall |
Ocean Temp |
| January |
25°F |
5°F |
0.44 in. |
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| February |
32°F |
12°F |
0.51 in. |
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| March |
42°F |
20°F |
0.98 in. |
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| April |
57°F |
32°F |
1.86 in. |
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| May |
69°F |
43°F |
2.68 in. |
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| June |
78°F |
52°F |
3.09 in. |
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| July |
85°F |
57°F |
2.68 in. |
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| August |
84°F |
56°F |
1.90 in. |
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| September |
73°F |
45°F |
1.35 in. |
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| October |
59°F |
34°F |
1.42 in. |
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| November |
40°F |
20°F |
0.75 in. |
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| December |
29°F |
9°F |
0.58 in. |
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Lemmon Map & Transportation
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The closest airports in the area are the Bowman Municipal airport (BPP) located about 63 miles north of Lemmon in Bowman, North Dakota and the Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional airport (DIK) located approximately 66 miles northwest of Lemmon in Dickinson, North Dakota.
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Lemmon Attractions
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| | | Golf Courses |
| Hettinger Country Club | Hettinger | ND | 21.4 mi. | |
| | | Zoos and Aquariums |
| Dakota Zoo | Bismarck | ND | 89.0 mi. | |
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