History • Hiking • Biking • Climbing
Fishing • Hunting • Spelunking
Day Touring • Wildlife • Photography
Rock Hounding • Horseback Riding
Archeology • Paleontology

Spearfish Creek

Black Hills trout streams and watersheds

Visit Custer State Park,
one of the largest state parks in America.
Custer State Park is a drive-through
wildlife treasure featuring buffalo, pronghorn antelope, wild donkeys, big horn sheep,
coyotes, wild turkey and prairie dogs.
Custer State Park is also known for its
seasonally-changing native vegetation.

Drive Hwy 244 behind Mount Rushmore
to see wild mountain goats grazing
along the roadway.

Whitetail and mule deer thrive everywhere in the
Black Hills. You might
even see a mountain lion,
an increasingly encountered resident
of the central Black Hills.

Black Hills streams abound with Brook, Rainbow and
German Brown Trout. Non-resident South Dakota
fishing licenses are available for one day, three days
or for the season.  Interested in a fishing guided tour?
Contact our friends at Dakota Anglers & Outfitters

The Black Hills also offer fishing in an abundance of
man-made lakes. Pactola and Sheridan Lakes
are both within minutes of the Black Forest Inn.

The Black Hills offer hunting opportunities for
small and large game, waterfowl and wild turkey.
Non-resident South Dakota hunting and fishing licenses
are available at SD sporting good stores, convenience
stores and online at www.state.sd.us/gfp

Pactola Lake near Black Forest Inn

Drive the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway
on Iron Mountain Road (Hwy 16A) over
switchbacks and pigtail bridges and
through tunnels with a view of Mount Rushmore.
Take the Needles Highway (Hwy 87)
through the Cascade Spires,
the Needle's Eye and Sylvan Lake
in high granite country.

Drive the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway
(Hwy 14A) between Cheyenne Crossing and Spearfish. Enjoy beautiful Roughlock Falls,
Bridal Veil Falls, Spearfish Falls and a deep
canyon with limestone towering overhead.

Needles Highway - Norbeck Scenic Byway

The Black Hills offer tremendous opportunities
for hiking and biking through the National Forest
or over high granite ridges and ranges.

Several formal trails traverse the Black Hills,
including the George S. Mickelson Trail
and the Centennial Trail.
Trails range from 2 to 110 miles in length,
following old railroad lines, mining roads and
waterways through gulches and tunnels.

The Needles area and the monolithic granite
uplifts behind Mount Rushmore provide
excellent vertical granite climbing, while
Spearfish Canyon provides awesome
vertical limestone climbing. Professional
climbing schools and outfitters are available.

Hike and explore the mysterious landscape of
Badlands National Park

Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway

Explore the history of the
Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876,
the Black Hills Tin Boom of 1884, and
the carving of Mount Rushmore 1927-41.

Explore the history of the Lakota Sioux,
the mysteries of Crazy Horse, and
the White Buffalo Woman cosmology.

Visit the Sculptor's Studio
at the Shrine of Democracy and learn
about Gutzon Borglum, the man who
conceptualized and directed the
carving of Mount Rushmore.

Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore

SPELUNKING

The Black Hills offers a large number of
commercial and national caves including
Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument

featuring dogtooth spar crystalwork
and intricate red and gray boxwork

Rushmore from the Sculptor's Studio

ARCHEOLOGY - PALEONTOLOGY

The Black Hills and surrounding prairie provide
rich sources of prehistoric artifacts.
Visit the
Black Hills Institute of Geology in Hill City
The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs

Buffalo in Custer State Park

Black Hills Central Railroad
1880 Train

Crazy Horse Memorial

Annual August Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
in Hill City

Black Forest Inn • 23191 Hwy 385 • Rapid City, South Dakota 57702
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