FREE Weekends in Badlands National Park
To promote tourism in National Parks throughout the United States, the National Park Service is offering a handful of free entrance fee dates in 2010 to all visitors.
June 5-6, August 14-15, September 25, and November ...Read More
Area Highlight: Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is impressive, and a sight not to miss when traveling to the Badlands of South Dakota. I highly recommend making the trip to see this truly wonderful monument to our great ...Read More
Annual Events in the Black Hills
The Black Hills are an isolated mountain range in the Great Plains and one of the most interesting landscapes you can imagine. Stretching through South Dakota and Wyoming, this National Forest area offers some of ...Read More
Area Highlight: Crazy Horse Memorial
While Mt. Rushmore might be the most famous tourist site in the Black Hills, the Crazy Horse Memorial, just 17 miles away, is another must-see destination that shouldn’t be overlooked. This massive mountain carving is ...Read More
Black Hills ATV’n
The one-million-plus acres the Black Hills offers a huge diversity of ATVing terrain. Whether you want to follow pine-needle-covered Forest Service roads running through conifer forests; wind your way through gray, clayey hills; climb boulders ...Read More
Visiting the Badlands
The wondrous Badlands National Park is a fascinating tour of fossil beds and stories about the evolution of mammals. Located in the southwest of the state of South Dakota, the park is open year round, ...Read More
Snowmobiling in the Black Hills
The arrival of winter in the Black Hills certainly doesn’t see an end to exploring the great outdoors – if anything, once the snowmobiles come out it’s even easier to access many of the areas ...Read More
Surprise Motorcycle Rally in the Black Hills
Driving cross-country a few years ago from Boston to San Francisco, I remember seeing the Black Hills suddenly pop up as dark colored hills along the mostly brown and tan horizon line. We knew we ...Read More
Top Oktoberfest Celebrations in the Rocky Mountain
You don’t have to travel to Munich, Germany to celebrate one of the world’s most popular festivals. Oktoberfest has found its way to a handful of towns in the Rocky Mountains. I always thought it ...Read More
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