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Lived there for four years. Rapid City. That whole area is a great place to live, maybe one of the best in the country, if the weather suits you. I grew up further west and missed the real mountains and wilderness of the Rockies, but the Black Hills are beautiful.

Great State - the Black Hills are awesome.

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Great pics G!

Ha! Whodathunk that anyone else in this thread even knows where Ree Heights is at? I was born and raised in Miller.

Born and raised in South Dakota. Married an Iowa gal and we moved to Iowa because teacher pay in South Dakota SUCKS. Still have family and plenty of places to hunt there. Born in Miller and spent my first 16 years there. Pheasant hunting for wild birds that most of you wouldn't even believe if captured on video. Graduated from South Dakota State University in 2002. I still consider it "home".

I lived there a long time ago. Still go ba I to a fan h to hunt. Have friends there.

That’s pretty cool.

When the wind is at thirty miles per hour, they consider it calm.

Dad was born there, had a lot of family there and went there a decent amount. I grew up in western Montana and Idaho and just couldn't give up the freedom of the northern rockies.

I could totally move there . Find a big boned Yankee woman to snuggle up with . She’d have to skin game, clean fish, and have places to hunt.

Years ago used to travel I-90 East to West from Wi. to Wyoming. We used to drive straight thru, and always hit south Dakota through the night.. When we used to travel it during the day time, I always said if you were a passenger and fell asleep for four hour, you would swear you were in the same spot when you woke up.

You are kidding me. My dad, Ken Lewis, was born in Miller. I have visited Miller several times to see "the old home place." Your name isn't Lewis, is it?

My dad was a football star at USD. They won the conference . Sweet Mother of God, you aren't one of those Jackrabbits, are you?

Been to S.D. 5 different times. Spent as much or more time thinking about leaving Ky. & moving there as I'd had anywhere else in my life. So many pluses for my spare time activities & my vocation. Places to work & play 10 fold.

Then I saw one of their snow plows............ it was nearly as big as my house. A beautiful place, in August.

Yep. Prairie dog shooting with Jim River Guide Service. Two of us fired 3,500 rounds in a weekend.

Tony

My grandfather was killed in a car crash in Ree Heights in 1936. Next year, my Dad being a 14 year old Wild Ass with no father with a "leather strap," Dad and two buddies, climbed the water tower and were going for a swim in the water tank. The cops were called, the high school principal was there, yelling up "Now boys, why don't you come on down from that tower?" Seventy feet high up in the air, the "authorities" had no sane way to get the wild yard-apes down.

No helicopters to the rescue, oops helicopters hadn't been invented yet. Dad said, after another half hour of swimming in the water tank, with all the town gathered around looking up from the ground, the cops and the Principal yelling at them, the wild young boys climbed back down that steep ladder.

Grammy Lewis was not amused.

I've driven across the state a couple of times on the way to Yellowstone.


Last trip (2000) was the hottest temp I've ever seen and dead calm until after dark. It was 117 mid-afternoon according to the temperature display in our Tacoma.

We pulled into the Badlands NP just before dark and could watch a storm coming out of the west for an hour. We were going to camp, but a gust of wind flattened our tent and broke the poles shortly after setting it up. We quickly threw everything in the Tahoe and pulled out just as the storm hit. No rooms in Wall. So we drove to Rapid City. Still no rooms available.

We ended up sleeping in the Tahoe in a Walmart parking lot.