Out in the parks
Hear national park landscapes come alive through guitar and sound at Jewel Cave National Monument.Musician and composer David Boye performs original instrumental guitar music built around recordings of natural sounds he gathered while traveling through parks across the United States. Music Inspired by Our National Parks brings those compositions and wilderness recordings together to evoke […]
Ages 10 to 18. Pre-register for this hands-on outdoor workshop with BHPFA naturalists, designed to introduce skills that can make a real difference when the unexpected happens. The class covers basic shelter building, fundamental fire-starting, locating and purifying water, and basic navigation. It runs from 9 a.m. to noon at an outdoor location in the […]
Beneath Pactola Reservoir lies a town that disappeared underwater. The Sunken City tells the story of Pactola, the community that was flooded when the reservoir was built, and how that change rippled through life in the Rapid City area.Drop in from 10 a.m. to noon, learn with a Forest Service presenter, and build a small […]
Join park rangers at Wind Cave National Park for one of autumn’s most thrilling wildlife experiences. Bull elk bugle across the mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forests as the fall rut begins, their eerie calls echoing through the hills at dusk. Meeting point: Wind Cave Visitor Center at 7:00 p.m. Rangers lead a caravan to […]
Join park rangers at Wind Cave National Park for one of autumn’s most thrilling wildlife experiences. Bull elk bugle across the mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forests as the fall rut begins, their eerie calls echoing through the hills at dusk. Meeting point: Wind Cave Visitor Center at 7:00 p.m. Rangers lead a caravan to […]
Join park rangers at Wind Cave National Park for one of autumn’s most thrilling wildlife experiences. Bull elk bugle across the mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forests as the fall rut begins, their eerie calls echoing through the hills at dusk. Meeting point: Wind Cave Visitor Center at 7:00 p.m. Rangers lead a caravan to […]
Help celebrate National Public Lands Day at our headquarters and Nature Shop in downtown Custer. Coyote howls, yips, and barks: they are actually saying something. And that is just the start. Pronghorn can run 55 mph with more stamina than any other animal alive. They picked up that speed running from an American cheetah that […]
Join park rangers at Wind Cave National Park for one of autumn’s most thrilling wildlife experiences. Bull elk bugle across the mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forests as the fall rut begins, their eerie calls echoing through the hills at dusk. Meeting point: Wind Cave Visitor Center at 7:00 p.m. Rangers lead a caravan to […]
We usually hear about forest insects only when they cause trouble, but just 1 to 3 percent of known insect species are considered pests. Join USFS entomologist Megan Wilson for an autumn hike from the Willow Creek Trailhead to meet the beneficial and genuinely fascinating insects that call the Black Hills home, from fuzzy bumblebees […]
Wind Cave National Park protects two very different worlds: the open prairie above and the intricate cave below. On clear nights a third world blankets both, the brilliant night sky over the southern Black Hills.Join a park ranger who ties the majesty of the night sky to the story of the park, pointing out and […]
Join park rangers at Wind Cave National Park for one of autumn’s most thrilling wildlife experiences. Bull elk bugle across the mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forests as the fall rut begins, their eerie calls echoing through the hills at dusk. Meeting point: Wind Cave Visitor Center at 7:00 p.m. Rangers lead a caravan to […]
Join park rangers at Wind Cave National Park for one of autumn’s most thrilling wildlife experiences. Bull elk bugle across the mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forests as the fall rut begins, their eerie calls echoing through the hills at dusk. Meeting point: Wind Cave Visitor Center at 7:00 p.m. Rangers lead a caravan to […]
