2011 Wild Bill Days Entertainment Set
By Joe Rainboth • Jan 18th, 2011 • Category: Events
The Wild Bill Days celebration, in Historic Deadwood, will feature two famed country acts for two days of FREE concerts on Deadwood’s Main Street…
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Joe Rainboth is a resident of Spearfish, S.D. He grew up in the tall-corn state of Iowa, where he developed an early interest in all things outdoors. After high school he moved to Vermillion, S.D., where he earned his bachelor’s degree in public relations and advertising.
During his college years, two things caught his attention: the beauty of western South Dakota’s Black Hills and a girl from those Black Hills. After graduating from college, Joe traveled across the country as a recruiter for the University of South Dakota. He saw the sights from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas and everywhere in between, but it was the Black Hills (and the girl) that kept drawing him back.
He and wife moved back to the Black Hills in 2008. He's an avid hiker, mountain biker and road cyclist whose future plans include trying to fit a pair of kayaks into the spare bedroom. Email this author
2011 Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo
By Joe Rainboth • Jan 13th, 2011 • Category: Events
The annual Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo kicks off two weeks from today, on Thursday, January 27 and runs through Sunday, February 6 in Rapid City…
Free Entrance Days at National Parks
By Joe Rainboth • Jan 6th, 2011 • Category: Events
The National Park Service announced its free entrance days for 2011. Several of the national parks in the Black Hills region are always free to enter…
Top 5 Black Hills Travel Blog Posts of 2010
By Joe Rainboth • Dec 30th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries
We’ve shared nearly 200 blog posts this year and there were five that easily rose to the top as far as the most popular from 2010…
Snowshoe Hiking Along Iron Creek
By Joe Rainboth • Dec 27th, 2010 • Category: Outdoor Adventure
We hit the Iron Creek trail parking lot (located on Hwy 14A, north of Spearfish Canyon Lodge) at about 11 o’clock on Sunday morning for some snowshoe hiking…
Rapid City Makes ‘Best Christmas Cities’ List
By Joe Rainboth • Dec 23rd, 2010 • Category: Culture
The Black Hills’ own Rapid City has been named one of the “Best Christmas Cities for Kids” by online news and opinion website The Daily Beast…
Madame Tussauds Wax Presidents Road Trip
By Joe Rainboth • Dec 22nd, 2010 • Category: Culture
Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. museum recently visited the Black Hills with wax likenesses of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln…
The Banana Belt: Father (in-law) Knows Best
By Joe Rainboth • Dec 17th, 2010 • Category: Culture
I’ve always heard folks talk about the region’s “Banana Belt” weather. Earlier this week, I was finally able to wrap my head around the Banana Belt concept…
Black Hills Snowmobile Trails Open Dec. 15
By Joe Rainboth • Dec 14th, 2010 • Category: Outdoor Adventure
December 15 is the big day here in the Black Hills of South Dakota when the 350+ miles of groomed snowmobile trails officially open for the season…
