June 17
Custer City to Belvidere (I90 exit 170) 1880 Town
Just about 4 miles north of Custer City is Crazy Horse Monument which began on June 3, 1948.
It is not completed yet but will be the
largest mountain carving in the world.
Crazy Horse’s head will stand 9 stories tall.
We didn’t want to pay $27 to see an
uncompleted mountain carving so took our pictures from the hwy.
Crazy Horse Monument in progress
This part of the highway has a lot of very nice homes with the use of rock
and brick.
There is a state campsite
just north of Crazy Horse and it looks very nice.
We drove through Rapid City.
Lots of road construction in town which is
always fun to get around pulling an RV.
But what we did notice that for a city of about 75,000 they have a lot
of beautiful parks and recreation. Heading east on the I90 we noticed a
lot of bill boards advertising “All Signs Lead to Wall Drug”.
A young pharmacist bought a store in 1931 and
in 1936 he was about to call it quits.
His wife came up with the idea to put a sign on the highway “Free Ice
Water”.
I'm riding a Jackelope
Leaving Wall you cross the interstate and start the Badlands Loop 65 miles;
it is friendly to RV’s.
It is like the
coulees in Medicine Hat but only on a grander scale.
You have to see them to appreciate them.
The colors range from brown to yellow to
pink.
Hard to imagine what happened here
millions of years ago.
Time to find a campsite!
We see a sign so we follow it into Kadoka.
The campsite is slightly gown over and the
first one we came to was even worse!
Just a little farther down the highway was a KAO near the 1880 Town,
tourist attraction.
Great little KOA to
spend a night.
But we did watch the
thunderstorm approach.
Luckily it skirted
around us and we did see the lightning and heard the thunder. Ross & John
in their evening stroll met a guy from Texas.
We were planning on heading to Sioux Falls but he suggested we go to
Yankton instead.
That’s our next
destination.
Daily Stats:
Today's distance: 302 km
Weather: Sunshine; High: 25 degrees; Lo: 10 degrees
Diesel Price:
Wildlife: Deer, Prairie Falcon, 3 Bighorn Sheep
Campsite:
Belvidere KOA (very nice,
clean) $34 incl cable, WiFi
Walking:
not much
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