Venterskroon is an old mining town, located in a valley in the middle of the Dome Mountain Land in the North West Province of South Africa.
Venterskroon is located along the banks of the Vaal River on the Free State provincial border.
This town falls under the JB Marks Local Municipality in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality of North West Province.
Venterskroon is home to the Vredefort Dome Information Centre. The Vredefort Dome is the center of the Vredefort impact structure. This impact structure is the world’s largest, oldest, and most deeply eroded complex asteroid impact structure in the world, and has been listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Site.
Evidence of the earliest inhabitants of the Venterskroon area has been found at the farm Thabela Thabeng and consists of petroglyphs representing hippo and rhino.