| Government Agencies EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Emergency Phone Numbers by Hiking Area, Sheriffs' Departments  FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Black Hills National Forest, Forest Service, includes four ranger districts: Bearlodge, Northern Hills, Mystic, Hell Canyon. Recreation Management, Consignee to Forest Service, manages campgrounds. Bear Lodge Mountains, a separate website for the Black Hills ranger district entirely in Wyoming Black Elk Wilderness, Forest Service, near Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore National Memorial, National Park Service Wind Cave National Park, National Park Service Fort Meade Recreation Area, Bureau of Land Management, in the Northern Hills south of Bear Butte Jewel Cave National Monument, National Park Service, on Highway 16 between Newcastle, WY and Custer, SD. Devils Tower National Monument, National Park Service, in Wyoming near the Bear Lodge Mountains Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Forest Service, Nebraska National Forest, south and east of the Black Hills and near the Badlands. Thunder Basin National Grassland, Douglas Ranger District of the Medicine Bow National Forest. Badlands National Park, National Park Service Sage Creek Wilderness Area, in Badlands National Park Bureau of Land Management for Wyoming Recreation.Gov for hiking information in any state. CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SOUTH DAKOTA STATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES South Dakota State Parks for the entire state of South Dakota. Rocky Point Recreation Area , South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks, at Belle Fourche Reservoir north of the South Dakota Black Hills Bear Butte State Park, South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks, in the Northern Black Hills Custer State Park, South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks, in the Southern Black Hills Custer State Park, the trails systems Angostura Recreation Area, South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks, at Angostura Reservoir in the Southern Black Hills South Dakota Department of Tourism South Dakota Dept of Transportation, I-90 Road Construction Report WYOMING STATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Wyoming Game and Fish for the Wyoming Black Hills. Wyoming State Parks and Historic Sites, including Wyoming trail systems. Keyhole State Park, at Keyhole Reservoir near Moorcroft, Wyoming Wyoming Dept of Transportation, Road construction statewide. Preventing West Nile Virus Trail Systems in the Black Hills Region TRAIL SYSTEMS & HIKES List of Black Hills Trails Forest Service list of trails for entire Black Hills Bear Lodge Mountains, Forest Service list of trails in the Bear Lodge area. Spearfish Canyon Foundation, trail descriptions for Spearfish Canyon area trails. Trailside Bikes in Custer provides mountain bike rentals and tours. Climbing Black Hills provides climbing routes for rock climbers. Outdoor Places, trails in Wind Cave National Park Wilderness.net, information and regulations for Black Elk Wilderness. Trails Section Black Hills Hiking Black Hills Volkssport Association for organized walking activities Geocaching.com for coordinates of GPS caches by zip code RAILS TO TRAILS-THE MICKELSON TRAIL Mickelson Trail web site includes mile by mile trailguide. American Hiking Society, one hiker’s journal of hiking the Mickelson Trail GORP—GREAT OUTDOOR RECREATION PAGES GORP on Black Hills summarizes hiking and biking trails-providing length and elevations: GORP on Black Elk Wilderness GORP on Wind Cave GORP on Devil's Tower GORP list of Forest Service campgrounds in the Black Hills. Gorp on the Centennial Trail Chambers of Commerce & Travelers' Information SOUTH DAKOTA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE WYOMING CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE Newcastle Sundance Hulett, north of Devils Tower Pine Haven, near Keyhole State Park Moorcroft and other NE Wyoming
TOURISM ASSOCIATIONS Black Hills and Badlands Association, provides a Vacation Guide listing campgrounds, motels, restaurants, entertainment, and so on. Visitor Magazine contains pages upon pages of tourist information. South Dakota Department of Tourism Commercial campgrounds in the Black Hills area Black Hills Tourist Info provides motels, dining, campgrounds, entertainment links, etc. Mallo Camp a winter haven on the Wyoming edge of the Black Hills. Snowmobile Links for the winter vacation. E LINKS PAGE 2 |