Framboise Island

South Dakota


At a bend on the Missouri River, Framboise Island has several hiking trails and plentiful wildlife. It's across from where the Lewis and Clark expedition spent four days in 1804 and was nearly derailed when the crew inadvertently offended members of the local Brule tribe.


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