Spearfish Canyon SD

30 Aug 06 – We drove up to Spearfish yesterday through some more beautiful Black Hills country past Lake Pactola which must have been 30 feet below ‘normal’! The drought is really bad in this part of the country. Spearfish is only about 10,000 people but appears much larger – perhaps influenced by Black Hills State University being here. They tell us this is the largest university in the state. Today we drove through Spearfish Canyon which has been a couple of million years in the making. The first photo is Bridal Vail Falls (visible from the road), the second is Spearfish River below an old Hydro-electric plant and the last two are views from Highway 14A as you drive toward Deadwood.