Boat Ramps in South Dakota
We list 155 public boat ramps and launches in South Dakota, spread across 41 counties. The waterbodies with the most listed launches are Lake Francis Case (18), Lake Oahe (16), Lake Sharpe (8), Angostura Reservoir (7), Missouri River (7).
Listings come from OpenStreetMap; no statewide agency boat-access dataset has been merged for this state yet.
Before you launch: boat registration in South Dakota is handled by the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, and fishing licenses are sold by the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks.
Counties in South Dakota
- Bon Homme County (6)
- Brookings County (8)
- Brown County (4)
- Brule County (3)
- Butte County (2)
- Campbell County (2)
- Charles Mix County (10)
- Clark County (1)
- Codington County (14)
- Corson County (2)
- Custer County (1)
- Davison County (2)
- Day County (4)
- Deuel County (7)
- Dewey County (2)
- Edmunds County (1)
- Fall River County (8)
- Grant County (2)
- Gregory County (5)
- Hand County (1)
- Harding County (1)
- Hughes County (10)
- Jerauld County (1)
- Kingsbury County (5)
- Lake County (2)
- Lincoln County (3)
- Lyman County (6)
- Marshall County (4)
- McCook County (2)
- Minnehaha County (2)
- Pennington County (8)
- Potter County (3)
- Roberts County (3)
- Spink County (3)
- Stanley County (3)
- Sully County (1)
- Tripp County (1)
- Turner County (1)
- Union County (1)
- Walworth County (4)
- Yankton County (6)
Popular lakes & rivers in South Dakota
- Lake Francis Case (18)
- Lake Oahe (16)
- Lake Sharpe (8)
- Angostura Reservoir (7)
- Missouri River (7)
- Lake Kampeska (6)
- Lewis and Clark Lake (6)
- Lake Thompson (4)
- Pactola Lake (4)
- Big Stone Lake (3)
- Pelican Lake (3)
- Richmond Lake (3)
- Round Lake (3)
- Belle Fourche Reservoir (2)
- Big Sioux River (2)
- Lake Campbell (2)
- Lake Cochrane (2)
- Lake Henry (2)
- Lake Poinsett (2)
- Lake Vermillion (2)
- Pickerel Lake (2)
- Sheridan Lake (2)
Cities in South Dakota
- Watertown (6)
- Angostura (2)
- Chamberlain (2)
- Lake Poinsett (2)
- Mitchell (2)
- Oacoma (2)
- Running Water (2)