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I have been camping in my 1990 Chevrolet Silverado Blazer 2-door for the last 20 years. When I removed the back seat there was just enough room for a 3/4 sized (Hollywood, as some people called them)...
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Continuing with our goal of visiting all of the state campsites we have never camped in before in our home state of South Dakota, we visited the Llewellyn Johns Recreation Area and the Shadehill Recreation Area. This is also near the Hugh Glass Memorial. He was made famous in the movie, The Revanant. They took a lot of poetic license making that movie because it was almost nothing like the real events and locations.
Our first stop was the gazebo type of monument to Llewellyn Johns. It is made of petrified wood that is found all over in this northwestern area of SD near the cowboy town of Lemmon.
You can see the lake in the background.
You have to be on the lookout for these when walking around this area, especially if you have cloth type shoes or tennis shoes. It is called brittle prickly pear cactus because it breaks off easily and sticks to your shoes or whatever part of you contacts it.
After spending one night at the Llewellyn Johns campground (a small one with 10 electrical sites and no showers, we moved on to the much larger (85 sites & about 7 cabins and several comfort stations with hot showers) Shadehill Recreaction Area. This campground in located on the shores of the Shadehill Reservoir which is quite large.
We were pleasantly surprised at all the birds we could see from our campsite. The first is a western kingbird and the second is a brown-headed cowbird, both native to this area.
Another bird we saw that is migratory and not native to the area is the cedar waxwing.
I found out you can always learn something new. We heard this booming, vibratory sound as we walked in the campground. I finally located the source. It was a nighthawk. It would fly up and then make a dive which produced the sound from it feathers. My wife looked it up on the internet and this is a mating activity and sound that I had never heard before.
On our drive out of the campground the next morning we came upon this group of buzzards.
We like to cook over the campfire and I had another chance to prepare my diced potatoes for supper.
The next campgrounds we visit will be in the southern part of the state.
Our first stop was the gazebo type of monument to Llewellyn Johns. It is made of petrified wood that is found all over in this northwestern area of SD near the cowboy town of Lemmon.
You can see the lake in the background.
You have to be on the lookout for these when walking around this area, especially if you have cloth type shoes or tennis shoes. It is called brittle prickly pear cactus because it breaks off easily and sticks to your shoes or whatever part of you contacts it.
After spending one night at the Llewellyn Johns campground (a small one with 10 electrical sites and no showers, we moved on to the much larger (85 sites & about 7 cabins and several comfort stations with hot showers) Shadehill Recreaction Area. This campground in located on the shores of the Shadehill Reservoir which is quite large.
We were pleasantly surprised at all the birds we could see from our campsite. The first is a western kingbird and the second is a brown-headed cowbird, both native to this area.
Another bird we saw that is migratory and not native to the area is the cedar waxwing.
I found out you can always learn something new. We heard this booming, vibratory sound as we walked in the campground. I finally located the source. It was a nighthawk. It would fly up and then make a dive which produced the sound from it feathers. My wife looked it up on the internet and this is a mating activity and sound that I had never heard before.
On our drive out of the campground the next morning we came upon this group of buzzards.
We like to cook over the campfire and I had another chance to prepare my diced potatoes for supper.
The next campgrounds we visit will be in the southern part of the state.
