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The German-Lakota Connection If you've ever spent time on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, you'll likely hear German as well as Lakota and English. Each year an untold number of German visitors, mostly young, make their way to Pine Ridge, Kyle, Wounded Knee. They camp in people's yards, stay in homes and delve deeply into Native American culture.
Mount Rushmore’s Trail Plans Most visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial don’t realize that it’s actually a 1,278-acre park. Its boundaries stretch to the surrounding ridges, gulches and natural rock formations. Now the National Park Service is looking at plans to open a 6- to 10-mile hiking trail to let visitors to explore beyond the existing grounds of the National Memorial.
Laptop Campers Won’t Be Roughing It In Custer State Park
Roughing it won’t be so rough beginning this summer in Custer State Park. Park officials and the concessionaire Regency CSP Ventures LLP are looking at plans to extend wireless Internet service to campgrounds near the State Game Lodge, the Sylvan Lake Lodge, the Legion Lake Lodge and the Blue Bell Lodge.
Fat Tire Festival Brings Bikers to Rapid City The recent snows are melting away in the Black Hills, and the white is quickly giving way to green. It’s a sight that would make any mountain biker’s heart flutter. And next month hundreds of mountain bikers will converge in Rapid City for the Second Annual Fat Tire Festival, a celebration of all things on two knobby wheels.
Travel Channel Gives Mount Rushmore & the Black Hills Some Love
The Travel Channel is featuring America's national parks this week, and it's kicking off the series tonight with Mount Rushmore & the Black Hills, which mostly focuses on the parks, monuments and scenic byways in western South Dakota. The hour-long program is filled with some epic, sweeping video of Rushmore, Custer State Park, the Norbeck Scenic Byway and Wind Cave National Park, including some great wildlife shots. I thought the elk bugling was really impressive, and it's always neat to see close-ups of buffalo, the largest land animals on the continent. The program spends a little bit of time in Deadwood, tying the gold rush of 1876 in with the history of the Lakota Sioux and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and then to the modern construction of Crazy Horse Memorial near Custer.
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