Sports facilities of every description recently open or are on the way in second-tier cities.

From soft adventure to catch-your-breath excitement, here are some ways to add fun to a Southeast meeting.

Historic properties in the Southeast are a chance to experience the elegance of bygone eras as they plot a path for the future.

Whetting your whistle with local libations is one way to soak up a city, and the Southeast has plenty of colorful brews from which to choose.

Fargo, in southeast North Dakota, and its suburban neighbor Moorhead, Minn., form a multistate metropolitan area of 209,000 people.

In south central North Dakota, Bismarck and its sister city across the Missouri River, Mandan, take their meeting visitors back to another time.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota’s largest city, will be the site of the 2013 Small Market Meetings Conference, Oct. 6-8.

Choosing Rapid City, S.D., as a meeting destination puts groups near some of the nation’s best-known historic landmarks.

Pierre, S.D., population 13,000, is kept busy with many visitors and frequent meetings by virtue of being the state capital.

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