Letter: Conserving Lookout Mountain
There have been arguments made of the relative impact of hikers as compared
to mountain bikers or other user groups, but discussions such as these fail …
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Public Lands Day 2013
Part of what Public Lands Day is about is taking ownership of wonderful public assets that belong to all of us, improving them and developing a sense of pride in our publicly owned land. Many Black Hills Trails volunteers dedicated their time on Saturday, September 14, 2013 to improving …
Lookout Mountain
Many individuals participate in many forms of recreation on Lookout Mountain in Spearfish, with almost any venture onto the trail system there you will almost without a doubt have a friendly encounter with other hikers, cyclists or runners. A recent Spearfish City Council meeting has however brought to light that this type of use was…
New website
The new Black Hills Trails site is now live, although a bit sparse at the moment. Significant changes and additions are expecting in the coming weeks and months. The maps and mapping functionality of PahaSapaTrails.com has been given to the Black Hills Trails organization and incorporated into this new site. As the maps and mapping…
Generating aerial tiles from NAIP imagery
So you need to create your own aerial imagery tiles for a web slippy map project do you?
Distances added to maps and descriptions
Distances (in miles) have been added to all of the maps and descriptions on the website. For trail networks without a specific route, such as …
Some bits from the archives
The sketch below was a concept done in late 2010 prior to the network/trail pages actually being implemented. While this website may be a modern version of a printed guide book, many facets of the site still have origins on paper.