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Bear Gulch Trail
Bear Mountain TrailBlack Hills National Forest16.1
These high mountain trails, topping out at 7,100 feet, offer a wide range of trail difficulties, taking you up draws, along ridges, and out to spectacular overlooks offering some of the most breathtaking views in the Black Hills. The Bear Mountain ski ...
Beaver Creek TrailBlack Hills National Forest12.7
Three loop trails wander bottoms and hills through pine, aspen and spruce forests. The Beaver Creek Trail is 2.6 miles long and is recommended for skiers wanting a leisurely outing. The Highland Trail is a 7.7-mile loop which offers challenging trails ...
Beaver Ridge Trail
Big Hills TrailsBlack Hills National Forest21
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Blackberry Trail
Carson Draw TrailsBlack Hills National Forest6
These are four season non-motorized trails total 6.0 miles winding through Carson Draw. They are off the "beaten path. and offer solitude to those searching for more primitive-type experiences. Pine, aspen, and oak surround the trails and provide habit...
Cathedral Spires Trail0
The Cathedral Spires Trail take you right through the middle of some of the actual spires. its a fairly moderate trail, nothing too strenuous. It eventually takes you to a scenic outlook over the black hills. about a 25-30 minute hike 45-50 round trip....
Centennial TrailBlack Hills National Forest111
Centennial Trail is the perfect way to experience the Black Hills for an hour, a day or a week. Known as Trail No. 89, the trail is a lasting legacy of South Dakota's 1989 centennial year of statehood. Its 111-mile length explores the diversity of Sout...
Cliff Swallow TrailBlack Hills National Forest3.5
These trails were designed and are maintained for hiking, mountain biking and nature study. Cook Lake is an easy one-mile hike, while Cliff Swallow is steeper, longer and more difficult.

Below Cook Lake and along the creek, you can see beavers in th...

Cook Lake TrailBlack Hills National Forest1
These trails were designed and are maintained for hiking, mountain biking and nature study. Cook Lake is an easy one-mile hike, while Cliff Swallow is steeper, longer and more difficult.

Below Cook Lake and along the creek, you can see beavers in th...

Crow Peak TrailsBlack Hills National Forest3.5
Massive Crow Peak dominates the northern Black Hills landscape near Spearfish. The Crow and Lakota tribes reportedly fought a battle here. The Lakota name, "Paha Karitukateyapi"" is an English translation for "the hill where the Crows were killed."

T...

Deerfield TrailBlack Hills National Forest18
Deerfield to Mystic (6 miles)
Kinney Canyon below Deerfield Dam is a walk-in trout fishery on Castle Creek. Staying on the main trail, you'll reach Kinney Canyon trailhead in about a mile. East of there the trail reaches its high point of 620...
Eagle Cliff TrailsBlack Hills National Forest20
The Eagle Cliff Trails are a self-guiding, loop trail system, signed at intersections with blazed trees marking the trail route. While Eagle Cliff Trails have long been recognized as a cross-country ski trail system, the area is also popular during the...
Flume TrailBlack Hills National Forest11
The historic Flume Trail takes you back in time to the mining boom of the 1880's. The Rockerville Flume carried water 20 miles, from Spring Creek west of present day Sheridan Lake, east to the placer diggings near Rockerville. The flume operated until ...
Fort Sully Game Refuge TrailFort Sully Game Refuge4.8
Two track trail that leaves from an area overlooking Lake Oahe. There are many small ups and downs leading to the lake's shore and natural river beach. Can get very hot during the summer months since there are NO TREES...bring water!
George S. Mickelson TrailBlack Hills National Forest114
The trail follows the historic Deadwood to Edgemont Burlington Northern rail line. This line passed through the heart of South Dakota's Black Hills and was abandoned in 1983.
Grizzly Creek Trail
Hell Canyon TrailBlack Hills National Forest5.5
The first 1/2 mile of trail climbs at a steep pitch with one switchback until you top out on the limestone crest. From there on grades are level to easy. This trail follows a bench below limestone cliffs and provides outstanding views of Hell Canyon an...
Horse Thief Lake Trail
Iron Creek Trail
Iron Creek Trail
Iron Mountain LoopBlack Hills National Forest4
From Iron Creek trailhead, travel .3 miles N up 16A. At a forest service gate leave the road and follow the draw to the west. Do not follow the abandoned road up the hill, stay due west through the folliage in the bottom of the draw. You will pass alon...
Iron Mountain Trail
Lake Loop TrailBlack Hills National Forest10
Lake Loop trail makes a 10-mile circle around Deerfield Lake, a 414-acre reservoir. From Reynolds Prairie you'll have great views of the lake. To the south, the trail winds through tall pine forest and small meadows. Lake Loop trail is well suited to a...
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