Planning a Trip to South Dakota & Wyoming

rirish1 wrote:
We always enjoyed the Black Hills area when camping with the family. Sturgis certainly impacts the area hard, so plan your trip around it unless you like huge crowds of motorcycles and visitors. A stop we really enjoyed was Hot Springs South Dakota which has a great Mammoth dig site, Evans Plunge (an indoor hot spring fed pool which the kids enjoyed), and Wind Cave is also nearby.

Sturgis Rally is a nice time to stay away from the area, not because the bikers are bad, but 1. getting a site anywhere near the Black Hills is nearly impossible. 2. IF you can get a site, the CG prices are double, even triple what they normally are. 3. As already mentioned, it gets quite noisy.