South Dakota - 5 Motorcycle Rides

Cactus Flat - Wall : Bad Lands Natl Park and famous Wall Drug
SD - Pennington/Custer/Fa..., United States
August 31, 2010 - 5.0

Bad Lands National Park http://www.nps.gov/badl/ is like a moon scape. Pictures just cannot capture the images and the shades of color. Best seen just before closing or early in the morning.
If you have gotten this close you would have been seeing signs for Wall Drug for the last few hundr...

Spearfish and Devil's Tower from Sturgis
SD - Harding/Butte/Perkin..., United States
August 31, 2010 - 4.0

A bit of a longer tour.. definitely all day from dawn to dusk. Heavily traveled during Sturgis Bike Week.

Needles Highway / Iron Mountain
SD - Harding/Butte/Perkin..., United States
January 20, 2011 - 5.0

THE most scenic motorcycle route in the Black Hills. Look out for the wildlife in Custer State Park (deer, elk, buffalo donkeys). You can easily add Mount Rushmore to this route as well.

US14 : Lead - Belle Fourche
SD - Harding/Butte/Perkin..., United States
August 27, 2011 - 5.0

Wow! What a breakfast ride this was! Early morning, nary a car on the road. The scenery is spectacular and the riding sublime. We were getting the Wings leaned over plenty and scraping a lot of peg all the way through this canyon. If we didn't have more great riding ahead we'd have turned aroun...

Devil's Tower : Moorcroft - Belle Fourche
SD - Harding/Butte/Perkin..., United States
August 29, 2011 - 3.0

This is a nice way to get off the interstate and see some interesting back country including Devil's Tower which is one very interesting piece of geology. This road (34/24 and 14) rates a "good+" with a mixture of straights and sweepers with a few tighter sections just for fun. The number of touri...