Planning a Trip to South Dakota & Wyoming
I am in the early stages of planning a trip to South Dakota and then head into Wyoming from New Jersey. Things I want to see: - Mount Rushmore - The Black Hills - Custer State Park (I keep...
Forum Discussion
Prior to making my trip to the Black Hills, I asked on several forums about the Sturgis Rally. The answers I got from people who lived there was basically that the folks attending the rally showed up as much as two weeks early to ride the area (Iron Mountain Highway and the Needles Highway and several other roads are favorites for scenery) and that after the rally they left quickly and didn't hang around.
As a result of this my planning was to arrive the tuesday after the rally ended (on sunday) and sure enough when I got to Spearfish Campground, there was only one motorcycle camper remaining.
The Sturgis rally dates this year are August 2ed thru the 11th. I would avoid the area in late July if you want to ride the roads and see the scenery comfortably.
Naysayers seem to put down the Crazy Horse Memorial, but I found the Museum of Native American History very interesting. There are a number of small museums in the area, ones I don't mention in my link below would include the South Dakota Railroad Museum and the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, both in Hill City, neither of which I was able to visit due to time constraints.
I traveled from south of Atlanta to Spearfish and did a whirlwind tour of the area and moved to Alliance, Nebraska for the eclipse.
My trip is documented in this thread.
My Black Hills, Badlands, and Eclipse trip of 2017
You may find some of my links in that thread useful.
Charles
As a result of this my planning was to arrive the tuesday after the rally ended (on sunday) and sure enough when I got to Spearfish Campground, there was only one motorcycle camper remaining.
The Sturgis rally dates this year are August 2ed thru the 11th. I would avoid the area in late July if you want to ride the roads and see the scenery comfortably.
Naysayers seem to put down the Crazy Horse Memorial, but I found the Museum of Native American History very interesting. There are a number of small museums in the area, ones I don't mention in my link below would include the South Dakota Railroad Museum and the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, both in Hill City, neither of which I was able to visit due to time constraints.
I traveled from south of Atlanta to Spearfish and did a whirlwind tour of the area and moved to Alliance, Nebraska for the eclipse.
My trip is documented in this thread.
My Black Hills, Badlands, and Eclipse trip of 2017
You may find some of my links in that thread useful.
Charles
