Golf in Swift Bird

Swift Bird is a small Dewey County community on Lake Oahe in the Missouri River breaks country, near the Cheyenne River Sioux tribal lands. The surrounding landscape reflects the Missouri River breaks — eroded gullies, prairie uplands, and the enormous reservoir created by the Oahe Dam. The extraordinary remoteness of the Swift Bird area and the surrounding tribal lands create a distinctive context where the immense sky, vast reservoir, and rugged breaks terrain provide a natural setting of uncommon drama for those willing to make the drive to this isolated corner of the state. The drive to Swift Bird is itself an experience in South Dakota's vast landscapes — long stretches of prairie and breaks terrain that few visitors ever experience outside of a car window.