The crown jewel of South Dakota’s state park system is Custer State Park, located in the southern Black Hills approximately 50 miles from...

Heroes come in all kinds of packages.   In fact,  many heroes are not even recognized  –  least of all during their own lifetimes.   But...

I don’t know where you live,  but have you ever noticed that there is a world of difference between Spring Fever and actual Spring?  ...

Here I am,  writing about beavers again.   That’s what happens when some of your best tours explore trails used by practioners of the...

Just before Christmas of 2017, the Black Hills of South Dakota suffered it’s third largest wildfire ever, burning 54,023 acres of forest...

Have you ever wondered how the buffalo were saved?   Like most such tales, it is actually more than one story, which I’ll get to shortly....

Here in the Black Hills we had a little extra excitement in the days leading up to the year-end festivities. You could even call it a...

When I was growing up on my grandparents’ ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota, one of our favorite hikes was to what everybody...