Discover enjoyable for all ages at widespread points of interest in Dell Rapids

Oct. 9, 2025

This piece is sponsored by Sioux Metro Growth Alliance.

Discover a brand new play place, take a step again in time and play video games underneath black mild with these enjoyable stops ready simply exterior Sioux Falls in Dell Rapids.

The Party Place

As Kim Hubers places it: “For a long, long time, I’ve been trying to bring an indoor playground into town.”

This 12 months, she did simply that. Hubers opened The Party Place at 405 E. Fourth St. in historic downtown Dell Rapids — constructing off her balloon artwork enterprise so as to add play house for infants by preteens.

“Up to about age 8 can play on most of the equipment,” she mentioned. “But I also have Legos and card games and different things for older kids.” 

She additionally sells sweet and small toys priced for kid-sized budgets and has loads of stuffed animals to go to. There are puzzles and household video games, plus the house is obtainable to lease for teams and particular occasions.

“We’ve had a lot of support,” Hubers mentioned. “Every time people come in, I hear: ‘Oh my gosh. I didn’t know we had this. I didn’t know this existed. This is great.’ They always come back.” 

Parents are welcome to carry a laptop computer and work or simply loosen up whereas youngsters play.

“It is very important to me that everyone is welcome and everyone can afford to come,” she mentioned.

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Dell Rapids Museum

 Step subsequent door to The Party Place at 407 E. Fourth St. and also you’ll step again in time.

The Dell Rapids Museum provides two tales crammed with donations that inform the story of every day life within the space from many years — even centuries — passed by.

“I have every reason to believe that my great-grandfather was one of those that worked on this building,” mentioned Rhonda Schildhauer, board president of the Dell Rapids Society for Historical Preservation.

“So that gives my heart a little bit of a boost towards the preservation of this building.”

Inside this historic constructing and former division retailer, you’ll discover ever-changing displays highlighting issues just like the Dell Theatre, novice baseball and toys from a number of eras.

“Upstairs, we have a 1920s kitchen and a bedroom set up,” Schildhauer mentioned. “We have a bridal display here. We have one from the undertaker because the building next door was the original funeral home here in Dell Rapids.”

Kids love to look the constructing on scavenger hunts for prizes through the summer time, and whereas every day hours go away within the fall, it’s nonetheless open by appointment.

Plus, there are particular occasions, together with taking part in downtown trick-or-treating and an annual Christmas pageant. And keep watching here in case more tickets open up for a paranormal reading in the building on Halloween night.

Take a strolling tour of historic Dell Rapids anytime with a brochure positioned exterior the museum’s door.

“We will come meet anybody, and since most of us on the board are retired, we have come on two minutes’ notice and come down to let people in and tour,” Schildhauer mentioned.

 The Fun Nook

And don’t depart Dell Rapids with out some memorable enjoyable at a brand new place appropriately named The Fun Nook.

It’s owned by Desiree and Paul Osborne, who additionally personal The Meeting Nook in Dell Rapids.

“We were hoping to create a place where people can come and they don’t have to have to go to a big city in order to do something fun and it could be fun all year-round,” Desiree Osborne mentioned.

A nine-hole mini-golf course is ready to black mild, whereas you will discover throwback enjoyable with retro video games, arcade basketball and Mario Kart.

“We’ve had quite a few parties come in here and some people on date nights and different things like that,” Osborne mentioned.

“Everybody’s had a really good experience here — just to play the golf, it’s really challenging, but also just to sit back and play all the other games as well.”

The house owners even have introduced a few of their bubble teas, lemonades and vitality drinks to The Fun Nook.

“And then we have a delicious sourdough pizza where we make our own sourdough crust, and you can get pepperoni or cheese as of right now,” Osborne mentioned. “And then we’re looking to expand that line as well.”

Bookings are obligatory however out there for at least two folks.

“We wanted people to take a step back, get off their phones and go back to good old fun and hanging out with their friends,” Osborne mentioned.

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