Tag: hiking

• Rapid City, SD

  

  Leaving Devils Tower, we headed east toward Rapid City, which lies at the far west end of South Dakota where the western mountainous region of the state gives way to the eastern grassy prairie areas that dominate the remainder of the state. Turns out, Rapid City is the perfect home base for a thousand different…

  Dan

  October 7, 2024

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  black-hills, custer-state-park, hiking, jewel-cave, national-parks, rushmore, south-dakota, travel, wall-drug, wind-cave

• Custer State Park

  

  The size of a national park, and with some of the features of a national park, Custer State Park in South Dakota is pretty incredible for a not-a-national-park destination. Mostly because of the animals. Ok it’s entirely because of the animals. This park has an 18-mile loop road that is dedicated to animal viewing and…

  Dan

  October 7, 2024

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  antelope, bison, custer-state-park, geese, hiking, prairie-dogs, pronghorn, south-dakota, travel, wild-burrows