George S. Mickelson Trail

Southwestern South Dakota

Sculptures
Mount Rushmore (National memorial) Crazy Horse
Geologic and natural history
Badlands (National park) The Mammoth Site Needles Spearfish Canyon
Mountains
Black Hills Bear Butte (National Historic Landmark) Black Elk Peak
Caves
Wind Cave (National park) Jewel Cave (National monument)
Forests and wildernesses
Custer (State Park) National Forest ) Wilderness ) National Grassland )
Lakes
Sylvan Pactola
Scenic byways
Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway Spearfish Canyon
Historic sites
Minuteman Missile (National Historic Site)
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The George S. Mickelson Trail is a rail trail in the Black Hills region of South Dakota.

The main trail route extends 108.8 miles (175.1 km), from Edgemont to Deadwood, with approximately nine miles of additional branch trails, including a three-mile (5 km) paved link from Custer to the Custer State Park completed in 2007. Intermediate points along the route include the towns of Custer and Hill City, and a short branch provides access to the city of Lead.

Nearly all of the trail follows the route of an abandoned

vault toilets, and tables. The trail surface is packed crushed limestone and gravel.^[2]

The trail is maintained by the

rails to trails project in South Dakota. The trail is named after George S. Mickelson

, the South Dakota governor who helped spearhead the project.

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Trailheads
Location	Milepost #	Coordinates
Edgemont	0	43°18′41″N 103°49′05″W / 43.31139°N 103.81806°W / 43.31139; -103.81806
Deadwood	108.8	44°22′14″N 103°43′42″W / 44.37056°N 103.72833°W / 44.37056; -103.72833

References

^ "Biking in South Dakota". South Dakota Office of Tourism. Retrieved December 21, 2008.
^ "George S. Mickelson Trail". South Dakota Game Fish and Parks. State of South Dakota. Archived from the original on May 21, 2010.

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Protected areas of South Dakota

Federal

National Parks	Badlands Wind Cave
National Historic Sites and Memorials	Minuteman Missile NHS Mount Rushmore NMem
National monument	Jewel Cave
National Forests	Black Hills Custer
National Grasslands	Buffalo Gap Dakota Prairie Fort Pierre Grand River
National Historic Trail	Lewis and Clark
National Recreational River	Missouri
National Wildlife Refuges	Huron WMD Karl E. Mundt Lacreek Lake Andes Madison WMD Sand Lake Sand Lake WMD Waubay Waubay WMD
National Wilderness Areas	Badlands Black Elk
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Missouri River

State

State Parks	Bear Butte Custer Fisher Grove Fort Sisseton Good Earth Hartford Beach Lake Herman Newton Hills Oakwood Lakes Palisades Roy Lake Sica Hollow Union Grove
State Recreation Areas	Angostura Big Sioux Burke Lake Buryanek Chief White Crane Cow Creek Farm Island George S. Mickelson Trail Indian Creek Lake Alvin Lake Cochrane Lake Hiddenwood Lake Louise Lake Poinsett Lake Thompson Lake Vermillion Lewis and Clark Little Moreau Llewellyn Johns Mina Lake North Point North Wheeler Oahe Downstream Okobojo Point Pease Creek Pelican Lake Pickerel Lake Pierson Ranch Platte Creek Randall Creek Richmond Lake Sandy Shore Shadehill Snake Creek Springfield Swan Creek Walker's Point West Bend West Pollack West Whitlock
State Nature Areas	Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve Beaver Creek Big Stone Island LaFramboise Island Spirit Mound Historic Prairie Spearfish Canyon

Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming

Attractions

Scenic routes

Roads	Norbeck Scenic Byway Iron Mountain Road Needles Highway Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway
Trails	Black Hills Centennial Trail George S. Mickelson Trail

Populated
places

Cities	Belle Fourche Central City Custer Deadwood Edgemont Hot Springs Hill City Lead Newcastle Rapid City Spearfish Sturgis Whitewood
Towns	Buffalo Gap Fairburn Hermosa Keystone Pringle Sundance
Unincorporated	Dewey Four Mile Galena Hanna Johnson Siding Nemo Rochford Rockerville Silver City Three Forks

History
and people

Native American	Cheyenne Lakota people Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) established the Great Sioux Reservation Black Hills War, or Great Sioux War (1876) Black Elk Sitting Bull Crazy Horse Lone Horn Red Cloud Spotted Tail
Old West	Dakota Territory (1861–1889) Black Hills Expedition (1874) Black Hills Gold Rush (1874) Newton–Jenney Party (1875) Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route (1876–1887) Sidney-Black Hills Stage Road (1876–1887) Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad (1893–1947) Seth Bullock and Martha Bullock General George Armstrong Custer Dora DuFran Wild Bill Hickok Calamity Jane Historian Doane Robinson Sol Star Al Swearengen Charlie Utter
Ghost towns	Addie Camp Bismuth Blacktail Burdock Cambria Carbonate Etta Flatiron Greenwood Maitland Myers City Mystic Nahant Novak Pactola Sheridan Spokane Terraville Tigerville Tinton Trojan
Modern	Fossil Cycad National Monument (1922–1957) Stratobowl (1934–1959) Black Hills flood (1972) Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and Lincoln Borglum Author Joseph Bottum Politician Francis Case Poet Charles Badger Clark Historian Watson Parker

Transit

Road junctions

Mount Rushmore in popular culture

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