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The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. [3] Black Elk Peak, which rises to 7,242 feet (2,207 m), is the range's highest summit. [4] The name of the range in Lakota is Pahá Sápa. [5]
Black Hills National Forest is located in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming, United States. The forest has an area of over 1.25 million acres (5,066 km 2) and is managed by the Forest Service. Forest headquarters are located in Custer, South Dakota. There are local ranger district offices in Custer, Rapid City, and Spearfish in ...
December 22, 2005. Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument, also known as the Roosevelt Friendship Monument or Friendship Tower, [2] located in the Black Hills National Forest on the outskirts of Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota, is a 31-foot stone tower, [3] including the six-foot-high platform, honoring Theodore Roosevelt.
Devils Tower (Bear Lodge) Matȟó Thípila (), Daxpitcheeaasáao [1]Highest point; Elevation: 5,112 ft (1,558 m) NAVD 88 [2] Coordinates: 3]: Geography; Location: Crook County, Wyoming, United States: Parent range: Bear Lodge Mountains, part of the Black Hills: Topo map: USGS Devils Tower: Geology; Mountain type: Laccolith: Climbing; First ascent: William Rogers and Willard Ripley, July 4 ...
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by ...
The Black Hills are a small range of hills in Thurston and Grays Harbor counties of Washington. They are widely considered a subset of the Willapa Hills, however, the line parent of the Black Hills is Rock Peak, in the Olympic Mountains. [1] 2,664-foot (812 m) Capitol Peak is the highest peak in the range. The Black Hills takes its name from ...
Thurston County, Washington, U.S. Parent range. Black Hills. Topo map. USGS Capitol Peak. Capitol Peak is a 2,658-foot (810 m) [1] peak in the Black Hills in the U.S. state of Washington. It is one of the two highest peaks in the Black Hills, along with Larch Mountain. [4] Capitol Peak is located in the Capitol State Forest.
e. The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. It is an active paleontological excavation site at which research and excavations are continuing. The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.