Black Hills National Forest
Custer, South Dakota 57730Filed Under: Camping, Climbing, Cultural, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting
The name "Black Hills" comes from the Lakota words Paha Sapa, which mean "hills that are black". Seen from a distance, these pine-covered hills, rising several thousand feet above ...
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Badlands National Park
Interior, South Dakota 57750Filed Under: Camping, Cycling, Hiking, Horseback, Skiing
Located in southwestern South Dakota, Badlands National Park consists of 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the Uni ...
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Wind Cave National Park
Hot Springs, South Dakota 57747Filed Under: Camping, Cycling, Hiking, Horseback
One of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features of the park. The cave is well known for ...
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Oahe Dam Lake Oahe
Pierre, South Dakota 57501Filed Under: Camping, Cultural, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting, Paddling, Skiing
Oahe Dam, SD takes its name from the Oahe Indian Mission established among the Lakota Sioux Indians in 1874. Lake Oahe's 230-mile long lake runs from Pierre, South Dakota to near Bismarck North Dakota ...
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Medora, North Dakota 58645Filed Under: Camping, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Paddling, Skiing
"I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota," Theodore Roosevelt once remarked. Roosevelt first came to the badlands in September 1883 on a h ...
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Dakota Prairie Grasslands
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501Filed Under: Camping, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting
The Dakota Prairie Grasslands are comprised of the Little Missouri National Grasslands, the Sheyenne National Grasslands, the Cedar River National Grasslands and the Grand River National Grasslands.Re ...
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Fort Meade Recreation Area
Belle Fourche, South Dakota 57717Filed Under: Camping, Cultural, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting
The Fort Meade Recreation Area is composed of approximately 6,700 acres of forest and grasslands. The area is managed to protect, preserve, and enhance its cultural, historic, recreational, and wildli ...
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City of Rocks National Reserve
Almo, Idaho 83312Filed Under: Camping, Climbing, Cycling, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting, Skiing
"We encamped at the city of the rocks, a noted place from the granite rocks rising abruptly out of the ground," wrote James Wilkins in 1849. "They are in a romantic valley clustered tog ...
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South Pass Historic Mining Area
LANDER, Wyoming 82520Filed Under: Camping, Cultural, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting, Skiing
This 30-square-mile area was a focal point for the discovery of gold in 1842 and the resultant 1867 gold rush that settled this part of Wyoming. By 1868, about 1,500 people lived in the District towns ...
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South Yuba River
Folsom, California 95630Filed Under: Camping, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Paddling
This twelve (12) mile trail carries hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders through pine-choked canyons to gentler slopes and open meadows. Expect to see historic flumes and waterworks - you're ...
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