Out in the parks
The forest around you is never silent. Every chirp, alarm call, and sudden hush carries information that birds, deer, and predators already know how to read. In this guided hike through Wind Cave National Park, Education Specialist Tom Tonkin teaches you to do the same.You will learn the difference between animals at baseline and alarm […]
Musician and composer David Boye performs original instrumental guitar compositions inspired by the natural landscapes of American national parks. His music weaves in recordings of wilderness sounds gathered during his travels across the country, capturing the character of the American West.Boye is a former Artist-in-Residence at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and North Cascades National […]
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 […]
Musician and composer David Boye performs original instrumental guitar compositions inspired by the natural landscapes of American national parks. His music weaves in recordings of wilderness sounds gathered during his travels across the country, capturing the character of the American West.Boye is a former Artist-in-Residence at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and North Cascades National […]
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 […]
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 […]
