Black Hills Trip - Day 3

Saturday, June 26th:  Wall, SD to Spearfish, SD

After a continental breakfast at the hotel, we headed back downtown Wall to experience, of course, Wall Drug.  The place is huge and you can lose a person in all the shops!  Misc. purchases were made, including "Equine Farkel" - which ended up to be regular Farkel except the "ones" on the dice were replaced with horses.  Nathan decided on a cowboy hat. 

 Where's your horse, young man?

Back on the road to go as far as Sturgis, where we would get off the interstate and head toward the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway.  After lunch in Sturgis at Subway, we kept going.  Our route took us through Deadwood and Lead.  We did not stop in these towns but were headed toward the Presidents Park, just outside of Lead.  This is a place where they have 20 foot busts of each president in amongst the Pondorosa Pine Trees.  Unfortunately, when we pulled up, the gate was locked with no notice or message of any kind explaining why it was closed.  We tried calling the toll free number and it went to something else and the regular number had been disconnected.  The website says it is "Closed for the Winter".  Oh well, on to the next thing.

The rest of the afternoon we drove the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway, ending up in Spearfish.  It was a cloudy but nice day.  We took lots of pictures, a few from our first stop are below!

Continuing on the Scenic Byway, we came across Roughlock Falls, where you can not only see the falls, but stand in the ice cold water of the stream!

The water isn't cold, IS IT, Diane?!?!

Roughlock Falls

The evening ended with an unappetizing meal in a Chinese restaurant in Spearfish.  It was bad enough that Dustin had to wash it down with a DQ Blizzard (bummer).  Off to the hotel where we checked in and had enough time for some sunset pictures and a swim in the pool.