South Dakota Boat Ramps
561 public launches · 517 with trailer ramps · 6 carry-in kayak/canoe launches · 391 confirmed free · 3 with restrooms
Before you launch in South Dakota
🧼 Boats must stop at open inspection stations, and boats with plants, mussels or standing water must be decontaminated.
Links go to official South Dakota agency pages.
Lakes
- Big Stone Lake (2)
Rivers, bays and coast
Counties
- Aurora County (3)
- Beadle County (10)
- Bennett County (1)
- Bon Homme County (10)
- Brookings County (19)
- Brown County (17)
- Brule County (4)
- Buffalo County (3)
- Butte County (6)
- Campbell County (8)
- Charles Mix County (12)
- Clark County (18)
- Clay County (2)
- Codington County (27)
- Corson County (9)
- Custer County (4)
- Davison County (5)
- Day County (32)
- Deuel County (13)
- Dewey County (6)
- Douglas County (1)
- Edmunds County (5)
- Fall River County (11)
- Faulk County (3)
- Grant County (4)
- Gregory County (11)
- Haakon County (1)
- Hamlin County (16)
- Hand County (3)
- Hanson County (2)
- Harding County (1)
- Hughes County (18)
- Hutchinson County (6)
- Hyde County (4)
- Jerauld County (2)
- Jones County (5)
- Kingsbury County (13)
- Lake County (18)
- Lawrence County (1)
- Lincoln County (15)
- Lyman County (16)
- Marshall County (22)
- McCook County (11)
- McPherson County (8)
- Meade County (7)
- Miner County (2)
- Minnehaha County (19)
- Moody County (5)
- Pennington County (17)
- Perkins County (8)
- Potter County (9)
- Roberts County (10)
- Sanborn County (2)
- Spink County (11)
- Stanley County (14)
- Sully County (11)
- Tripp County (6)
- Turner County (3)
- Union County (4)
- Walworth County (12)
- Yankton County (15)