Black Hills Climbing

[gus]

Road trippen through South Dakota for a few weeks. Anyone have any suggestions for some killer spots to boulder or climb? I want to check out the Badlands and Blackhills area. Also, any kick ass areas to camp would be great.

[Wes]

Fun places, no doubt! Camp free at Sage Creek in the badlands. Black hills has several pay campgrounds. Lots of killer climbing around there, and a list of "must do routes" would still take weeks to go through. Slyvian lake is a good place to camp, and you can walk to much of the climbing from there.

[John E]

Road trippen through South Dakota for a few weeks. Anyone have any suggestions for some killer spots to boulder or climb? I want to check out the Badlands and Blackhills area. Also, any kick ass areas to camp would be great.

Devil's Tower is close by.

[pigsteak]

be solid at 5.7 trad (at least) to climb devile tower..the trade route is slick in spots...

[bazoqop]

I climbed in the needles a couple of times in the mid seventys.
Hardcore trad area with cheese grater potential when you take a whipper. You learn to tie off knobs and crystals.
That being said I had a blast there. Lots of cool routes and many safe and not too scary. I guess there's some sport climbing at Mount Rushmore and a couple of other places. The bouldering is steller.

And Devils tower is a stones throw away.

[bazoqop]

[TradMike]

Sylvan Lake was nice for camping and climbing. Climb at Mount Rushmore for sport, Devils Tower for trad & Needles for either sport or trad. Be prepared for runouts on a lot of the stuff in the Needles.