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A Peek at Historic Hot Springs
The town of Hot Springs is a sightseers delight, filled with nearby treats such as the Mammoth Site, Evans Plunge, Wind Cave National Park, Angostura Recreation Area, etc., but when you take a drive...
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Spearfish Canyon Colors Peaking Early
A tourist visits Spearfish Falls on Thursday, September 13. With the drought this past summer, the fall colors are peaking earlier this year than just about any year in the past. Around our office...
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Airport artwork makes connections
Airports are peculiar places, I think, as I watch a young Asian man with two huge rolling suitcases pause in his rather random amble across an expanse of industrial carpet at Rapid City Regional...
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From Art Alley to Butterflies to Emerging Artists
So, I’m driving into work on Monday and I’m thinking about Art Alley. Actually, I’m thinking about Art Alley, the Emerging Artists Showcase I attended Friday night and Main Street Square. It’s the...
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Dreams Coming True at Crazy Horse
Copyright Crazy Horse Memorial I recently spent most of a day at Crazy Horse Memorial and devoted several hours to a careful inspection of the art and artifacts on display in its Indian Museum of...
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Preparing For Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo®: One Dirty Task
What do you do with 80 loads of dirt and 160 tons of woodchips? Hold the annual Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo®, of course! Before competitors can face off in Rushmore Plaza Civic Center’s Barnett...
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Touring the Groomers of the Big Hill Trails
I spent my Saturday discovering the allure of cross-country skiing in the Black Hills with the desire to offer a snapshot of the area through the activity. My company on this trip was Pam, a downhill...
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Black Hills Folk Stories: I am a rodeo pickup man
At the Black Hills Stock Show Professional Saddle Bronc Match in Rapid City, all eyes are on the bucking chute—anxiously awaiting that 8-second whistle. The crowd claps and cheers the cowboy’s...
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Racing Presidents Redux
They came. They saw. The Black Hills conquered. Okay, maybe conquered is a little too strong, but the Washington Nationals’ Racing Presidents were absolutely thrilled with their three-day tour of our...
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B.H. Film Festival features “The Buffalo King”
“The Buffalo King,” an hour-long documentary by native South Dakotan Justin Koehler and Aaron Pendergast, is one of several dozen films that will be shown during the Black Hills Film Festival,...
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Black Hills Folk Stories: I Feed the Masses at Mount Rushmore
Lloyd Shelton is the Food & Beverage Director with Xanterra Parks & Resorts, Inc., the park concessionaire that operates the dining and shopping facilities at Mount Rushmore National Memorial....
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Black Hills Folk Stories: I am Tater Tot
Chris Pelczarski prepares to hide Easter eggs on the summit of Devils Tower Chris “Tater Tot” Pelczarski, 30 — The climber, caver, storyteller, and Chicago transplant chimes in on rock climbing in...
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Passage of Wind & Water to join Hills sculpture legacy
Search for the sculpture capitol of the world on a map and you could find yourself pointing to the Black Hills. Already home to the world’s two largest outdoor sculptures, Crazy Horse and Mt....
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Family Adventures in the Badlands: Part 1
Weekend came around once again and it was time for a new adventure. In all the years we lived in South Dakota we have never explored the Badlands…and with a perfect 65 degrees afternoon in front of...
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An afternoon in the Grasslands
We’re only traveling a couple hundred miles and we’ll be back home in just two days. But I’m a little bit scared. Most of the drive is familiar – south on Hwy. 44 to Interior and into the Badlands....
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Hiking Custer State Park: An abundance of wildlife
Photo by Greg V. South Dakota was recently named one of 10 best destinations in the world for wildlife viewing and Custer State Park is the main reason it made such an exclusive list. A drive on the...
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Seeing Eye to Eye With a Legend | Crazy Horse Volksmarch (June 1-2, 2013)
The Crazy Horse Volksmarch held the first full weekend in June (June 1-2, 2013) is considered one of the most popular organized hikes in the United States with over 10,000 annually making the trek....
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Family Adventures in the Badlands: Part 2
Being awestruck by the beautiful formations this time around. The kids were very excited to return to what they have deemed “Dinosaur land”, in part due to the animatronic T-Rex at Wall Drug in Wall,...
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A Good Day to Experience Brule’
It’s the kind of beckoning day that only comes along in early summer, when the spring rains have been plentiful and timely. The slopes and meadows are as green as Ireland, and the sky is bluer than...
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4th of July in the Black Hills
American pride. There’s no shortage of that commodity here in the Black Hills of western South Dakota. Of course, it starts with Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where thousands renew their...
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