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South Dakota
Featuring:
*The Black Hills & Custer State Park Scenic Byways
*The Badlands
*Sioux Falls & Garretson Parks
and other points of interest along the way
*Click photos to enlarge*
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Spearfish Canyon (after Devil's Tower in Wyoming) a little too late for pics, but captured Bridal Veil Falls and the evening sun glowing on the bluffs |
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Mountain goats outside of Hill City the next morning |
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And the obvious, |
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Antelope & Buffalo in Custer State
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Continuing on the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway, |
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Interesting rock formations (left); the popular "Needle's Eye" and description (right) |
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Crazy Horse |
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Retiring in Wall for the night after roaming the streets and taking a few evening photos in the Badlands |
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Beauty along the way the next morning, to our hiking destination |
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PEACE :) |
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Up the Saddle Pass Trail in the Cedar Pass area of the park |
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| Brilliant pear cactus flowers and our big "wish" on the Medicine Root Trail |
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| Looping back to Saddle Pass via the Castle Trail |
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Circular arch (left); another interesting rock formation (right :)) to end our spectacular hike in the Badlands! |
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One of Jim's several strange goals this trip: swimming in the muddy Missouri River (yuk!) |
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Eastbound to Mitchell, displaying the latest decor of the Corn Palace |
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Mitchell's best kept secret campground we stayed at with a beautiful lake to enjoy |
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Sioux Falls impressed me this visit - now a nice park surrounds the area (interesting geological sign) |
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Northbound to the town of Garretson: Palisades State Park where we took a nice short hike (click this link for a PDF of the Sioux Ridge Geological description) |
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A cool barn in Garretson on our way to Devil's Gulch |
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Legend has it that Jesse James jumped the gulch escaping a Minnesota posse |
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We took a long hike around the whole area (click
this link for a media clip of the falls in the gulch) |
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My "desert rat" husband loves grass, and compared corn to ours growing in Enterprise, UT) |
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