It’s easy to lose yourself in the throes of the two-week party at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip®. But as inhibitions melt away in the roar of motorcycles and music, what’s left behind is anything but ordinary.
As spirits let loose in 2024, so did more tangible parts of attendees’ selves and surroundings. Some lost their tents. A few lost inflatable friends. One guy even lost his prosthetic leg.
These bizarre remnants prove that losing your mind at the Best Party Anywhere® means you could lose a piece of yourself in a truly unexpected way.
Buffalo Chip staffers have worked tirelessly to collect and document hundreds of items left behind during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Now it’s your turn to chip in.
Check out the 2024 Buffalo Chip Lost & Found for yourself and see if you can help the Chip solve some mysteries and reunite people with what’s rightfully theirs.
A Pair of Converse Sneakers
Their owner must’ve done some real sole searching at the Chip.
4 Fully Furnished Campsites
Are these people secretly trying to stay at the Chip year round?
A Prosthetic Leg Hanging in a Tree
Questions abound:
Is this a memorial? A prank on a friend? Did the original leg grow back like a lizard tail?
A Few Floaties
It must’ve been sink or swim when it came to the items folks had room for in their saddlebags.
If only they remembered they could save space by letting out some air like…
This Half-Deflated Boob
Perhaps a pair might’ve gathered a larger collection of beads.
Frank’s Discount Furniture Warehouse
Have we got a bargain for you!
A Pickle Farmer
Hard at work planting more pickle seeds for next year’s contests at Bikini Beach.
Little Bo Peep and Her Lost Sheep
To be fair, the nursery rhyme does say:
“Leave them alone, and they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them.”
A Chrysler Town and Country 
This van was parked near the CrossRoads with the windows down for 2 weeks.
A High-Centered Toyota Camry
By the looks of things, it might be stuck on property for a while. Hope no one parts it out to make…
A Sled
Crash landed on the side of a portapotty.
A Gimp Cage Draped in Bacon
Or perhaps it’s just a live trap for drunk husbands?
Teethe’s Pieces
L: Found in the road
R: Found at the Miss Buffalo Chip Bikini Bike Wash
Interestingly, the Buffalo Chip front office received a call about missing teeth, but it was neither of these.
Retired Tires
Hope these folks took advantage of Fozzy’s Cycle Shop’s smokin’ Metzler Tire deal at the Buffalo Chip Garage.
Loads of Loofahs
These folks were either extra clean or real dirty.
An Out-There Outhouse
Now go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
Registration for a 2002 Dyna Super Glide
Maybe they mixed a little TOO much at the FXR Show & Dyna Mixer?
Snoop D.O. Double G Gettin’ R.A.D.
Who needs the Paris Olympics when you can be young, wild and free at Camp Zero?
A Cry for Help?
Hope you’re ok, buddy.
The Front Row
VIPs of the dumpster
A Spilled Can of Alphabet Soup
We’re not sure what they were trying to spell, but “RESCUE LOST TACT” seems likely.
A Boxing Nun
Conor McGregor better watch his back.
Chiphenge
Archaeologists believe rally-goers performed beer-chugging rituals at this monument to mark the beginning and end of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Too Cool for 2 Pools
These diving boards are NOT regulation.
This Tiny Disco-very
What is this? A dance club for ants?
The Last Pin Standing
Not the kind of pinup you might expect.
A Boob Tube
The only thing you can watch on here is filth.
6 Hats
These folks didn’t know that to keep your hat from flying away, you gotta put a cap on it.
1 Helmet
The brain this helmet protected wasn’t firing on all cylinders when they took off without it.
1 Sweatshirt
QUACK! QUACK!, I want my shirt back!
2 Rings & 2 Bracelets
Did you fling your bling somewhere?
5 Phones
Your mom sends her regards.
Half of a Vape Shop
Your juice is on the loose.
27 Pairs of Glasses
Sunnies, readers, clears and prescriptions—with and without lenses.
14 Credit Cards
Hope no one went into card-iac arrest wondering where theirs had gone.
16 Sets of Keys
Anybody know a good locksmith?
3 Wallets
One of these looks like it might have been lost before.
7 Government-Issued IDs
Do these guys look excited to be at the DMV or what?!
6 Miscellaneous Cards
Everything but a “get out of jail free” card.
Call and Describe to Claim
1 Bluetooth Speaker
1 Wireless Bodypack Receiver
1 Microphone
1 Multitool
1 Hydration Backpack
Does any of this stuff look familiar?
Did you lose or find something you don’t see listed? For example, the walking stick that friend of the Chip Deb Whitman has treasured for decades.
If so, call (605) 347-9000 to search for and log lost and found items.
Want to see even more weird things campers have left behind after the Sturgis Rally? Check out the Buffalo Chip’s Lost and Found from past parties:
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014
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Known as The Best Party Anywhere®, the Sturgis Buffalo Chip believes festivals should be fun like a high five, reenergize you like a broken rule, and romance you like someone you just met and have to take home.
This nine-day festival of concerts and motorcycle events promises to bring you exciting events like flat track races and live performances from artists like Aerosmith, Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Five Finger Death Punch, Kid Rock, Rob Zombie and many more.
Find out more or get passes to the Best Party Anywhere at www.BuffaloChip.com and find out why it continues to be one of the most televised festivals in the world.
Did you find anything that was left behind at the Buffalo Chip after the Sturgis Rally? Tell us what it was in the comments below so we can get it back to the rightful owner.
