OK, if you have a lot of work to do today, don’t read this blog post until you get home tonight. It’s very easy to lose track of time on this great MOUNT RUSHMORE/3D website. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to see the four faces of Mount Rushmore National Memorial from the back [...]

Next weekend you can explore Wind Cave or Jewel Cave, hike in the Badlands or stare up at the columns of Devils Tower — all for free. The National Park Service is offering a free weekend in its national parks, monuments and memorials in honor of the Martin Luther King Day holiday. And the Black [...]

Although the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is eight months away, students at Western Dakota Tech’s welding, manufacturing and collision repair students will soon be hard at work creating a new custom motorcycle for the August event. The Rapid City school has teamed up with the Sturgis Buffalo Chip rally campground and concert venue, Black Hills Harley-Davidson, [...]

Mount Rushmore has been moved, apparently, to Washington, D.C., where they overlook the U.S. Capitol, the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. OK, the real Rushmore is still in the Black Hills. But in Shenzhen, China — I realize we’re jumping around here — there is a theme park called Windows of the World, featuring [...]

Is a new winter sport coming to the Black Hills?  Called snow biking, or fat biking, it’s gaining traction here, in Alaska, in Wyoming and other parts of the West. It’s pretty big in Minnesota and Wisconsin, too. I didn’t know anything about snow bikes until yesterday morning. Tim  Rangitsch, owner of Acme Bicycles in [...]

Christmas is right around the corner, and holiday activities are in full swing in the Black Hills this week. We have put together two lists of festivities throughout the Black Hills that are sure to be a jolly good time! This is the first installment. Hill City 1880 Holiday Express will make its final journeys [...]

It’s not too soon to start thinking about the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo. The 2012 stock show is coming to the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Jan. 21 to Feb. 5. The Black Hills Stock Show is a great experience whether or not you’re in ranching. For regulars, it’s a welcome break from the [...]

Recent snowfall — anywhere between 8 and 12 inches throughout much of the Black Hills — has gotten all snow lovers excited about the 2011-12 winter sports season. Although we’ve had a recent warmup down in Rapid City and environs, the higher elevations have remained relatively cold. But we could always use more snow. Terry [...]

Happy Thanksgiving. And one thing we can be thankful for in the Black Hills is turkey. Not the big-breasted, farm-raised beasts most people find on their holiday table, but the free-ranging wild turkeys that abound in the Black Hills. You can see them at any time of the year. Sometimes they are stealthy — half [...]