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Road Trips from Deadwood

Everything here is about two hours or less by car. Drive times are estimates from routing data and don't include stops, traffic, or winter roads.

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A sepia stereograph view of wooden buildings in Central City, South Dakota, in the mining era
About 2 min, 2 mi

Central City

A small gold-rush city on the way out of Deadwood Gulch

Historic photograph by John C. H. Grabill of the Open Cut at the Homestake mine in Lead
About 5 min, 3.4 mi

Lead

Deadwood's mining neighbor, built around the Homestake

Rows of parked motorcycles along Main Street in Sturgis during rally week
About 16 min, 13.6 mi

Sturgis

Motorcycle heritage, with Bear Butte on the horizon

The rainbow trout pond and visitor center at D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery in Spearfish
About 19 min, 15.1 mi

Spearfish

A creekside town at the mouth of the canyon

Autumn grasses and dark pines below the pale limestone rim of Spearfish Canyon
About 25 min, 17.1 mi

Spearfish Canyon

Limestone walls and waterfalls on US 14A

South Dakota Highway 34 curving past buildings at the edge of Belle Fourche under a wide sky
About 34 min, 27.2 mi

Belle Fourche

A cattle town founded by Deadwood's own Seth Bullock

A tree-lined street with brick buildings in downtown Rapid City on a sunny day
About 46 min, 41.4 mi

Rapid City

City of Presidents at the edge of the Hills

A Black Hills Central Railroad steam locomotive tender and rail cars on the track at Hill City
About 64 min, 42.2 mi

Hill City

Steam trains in the central Black Hills

The main street through Keystone, South Dakota, lined with storefronts below forested hills
About 69 min, 46.2 mi

Keystone

The busy gateway to Mount Rushmore

Close view of the carved granite faces of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson at Mount Rushmore
About 77 min, 48.1 mi

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The four presidents, about an hour and a quarter south

An adult bison and calf grazing on a green hillside in Custer State Park
About 89 min, 71.7 mi

Custer State Park

71,000 acres of bison country

The partly carved granite face and arm of the Crazy Horse Memorial under billowing clouds
About 90 min, 53.9 mi

Crazy Horse Memorial

A mountain carving begun in 1948

The columned rock of Devils Tower rising above ponderosa pine under a clear blue sky
About 91 min, 76.7 mi

Devils Tower National Monument

America's first national monument, over the Wyoming line

Hikers on a trail between pale rock walls in a forested canyon at Jewel Cave National Monument
About 103 min, 69.3 mi

Jewel Cave National Monument

Over 220 miles of mapped cave passage

Layered tan and rust badlands formations under a deep blue sky at Badlands National Park
About 105 min, 100.3 mi

Badlands National Park

Banded rock and mixed-grass prairie to the east

Two bison grazing in yellow sweetclover on the prairie at Wind Cave National Park
About 118 min, 76.4 mi

Wind Cave National Park

Boxwork below, bison above