The Black Hills National Forest boasts one of the largest motorized trail systems in a National Forest that is open to vehicles 62 inches or less in width.
The Black Hills are full of monumental works of both human and nature, evident too in the world-class hiking, biking, motorized and non-motorized trail offerings one can find here.
Explore the mysterious depths of the underground world in many of the caves that are home to the Black Hills. The Black Hills is also home of two caves that happen to be National Parks.
Gentle horses. Expert guides and wranglers. Great scenery. They all add up to Trail Ride, a great way for amateur (even never-ever) riders to enjoy being a cowboy in the great outdoors.
In South Dakota, the fishing season never closes! Which makes the pursuit of trout in the streams and lakes of the Black Hills a year-round sport. You can catch walleyes, northern pike, bluegills and crappies too-but trout top the list for Hills sportsmen.
Autumn is big game hunting time in western South Dakota. And the hunting opportunities are distinctly divided between prairie/range-land habitat and the mountainous Black Hills.
They stand tall, these two mountains just southwest of Lead-Deadwood, SD. Up to 7,076 feet — tall enough to gather in the pure Western snows from the storm clouds blowing from Wyoming.
If the coordinates N 44 17.849 W 103 48.471 mean anything to you, then you’re probably into geocaching. Using your Global Positioning Device and a published longitude and latitude, you try to locate a treasure, or cache, which someone has hidden at those coordinates.
