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Official South Dakota Highway Map. State of South Dakota. 2007. A Tourist Guide of the Black Hills (South Dakota Department of Environment & Natural Resources) South Dakota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. 1997. ISBN 0-89933-239-0.
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]
A post office called Highmore has been in operation since 1882. [7] The city was named from its lofty elevation. [8] It was near Highmore that South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg struck and killed a pedestrian in 2020. [9]
More than 1 million people visited Badlands National Park last year. Here's why you may want to consider joining them.
Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča [3]) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km 2 ) [ 1 ] of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles , along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.
Southwestern South Dakota; Sculptures; Mount Rushmore (National memorial) Crazy Horse; Geologic and natural history; Badlands (National park) The Mammoth Site; Needles; Spearfish Canyon; Mountains; Black Hills; Bear Butte (National Historic Landmark) Black Elk Peak; Caves; Wind Cave (National park) Jewel Cave (National monument) Forests and ...
After a series of devastating wildfires in 1893, U.S. President Grover Cleveland created the Black Hills Forest Reserve on February 22, 1897. [5] U.S. President William McKinley issued a presidential proclamation on September 19, 1898, appending the Black Hills Forest Reserve geographic boundaries while acknowledging the forest preservation decrees established by the Timber Culture Act and ...
In the south, east of the Black Hills, lie the South Dakota Badlands. The Black Hills are in the southwestern part of South Dakota and extend into Wyoming. This range of low mountains covers 6,000 sq. miles (15,500 km 2 .) with mountains that rise from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 m) above their bases.