Rimrock Area, South Dakota
The Rimrock Area is a suburban area of Rapid City, South Dakota located along South Dakota Highway 44 and Rapid Creek in the eastern Black Hills, between Rapid City and US-385. The area consists of a series of rural residential areas, subdivisions of various sizes, and old towns, including:
- Dark Canyon, South Dakota
- Big Bend, South Dakota
- Hisega, South Dakota (sometimes divided into Upper and Lower Hisega)
- Johnson Siding, South Dakota
- Placerville, South Dakota
The area has been a suburb of Rapid City since the construction of the
The area includes a number of minor tourist attractions, including Black Hills Caverns (formerly Wildcat Cave), the now defunct Crystal Cave (formerly Nameless Cave), Thunderhead Falls, and Rapid Creek itself, with a cold-water trout fish hatchery. Placerville is now a church-affiliated camp; other resort/tourist camps and bed-and-breakfast places are scattered through the area.
Many homes in Dark Canyon were destroyed, and lives lost, in the
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Johnson Siding
- "Rimrock Community Center". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-09-23.