Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota, Hiking, Biking, Camping
A National Forest Preserve With Three Waterfalls       Close To Sturgis for Camping  
Spearfish Canyon area offers some great views and camping and hiking.  Spearfish is located in the
southwest corner of South Dakota about 46 miles west of Rapid City and 65 miles from Mount Rushmore.  
The canyon runs through the Black Hills about ten miles from Lead/ Deadwood.  The area  was once
managed by the mining companies and now is a preserved landscape of pine forest and meadow with the
Spearfish River running through it.
Entering at the town of Spearfish from Route I-90, the east coast to west coast interstate highway, you find
Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway, Route 14-A, just east of the town. Enter route 222 at Savoy near
Spearfish Falls and find the campgrounds. Sites are $15 a night, self-pay envelope $7.50 for Golden Age
Pass holders. No hookups, no dump station.
spearfish Canyon offers tent and RV camping in the park for $15 per night, $7.50 with Golden Age
Pass.
Spearfish Canyon is National Forest land.   Self-pay envelopes, correct change advisable.  The
sites are small sites with no shade at the Rod and Gun camp and shade at the Timon
Campground, two miles further in on SD 220. The Rough Rock Falls road. No dump stations
available at these sites.
Enter at Savoy  for the Rough Rock Falls and go three miles to the Rod and Gun Campground,
or two more to the Timon sites. Pick an unoccupied site, pay at the kiosk, and clip your receipt to
the post. Private campgrounds are available at Spearfish, a large one at the fish hatchery.
RV vacationers can use the park as a convenient stopover on the way west or east on Route I-90; the
park's Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway  eventually comes to the town of Lead and then Deadwood,
towns near Mount Rushmore and stopovers for most east/west travelers.  Bikers on the way to the August
rally at Sturgis ND camp in the park.
A vast network of gravel roads makes
hiking and biking a great activity in the
canyon. Hiking trails follow the Little
Spearfish River along its course near
Rough Rock Falls and the two camp
grounds, Rod and Gun and Timon.
These streams are stocked with brown
and rainbow trout.
Two posts mark the site of the filming of last
scenes from the movie Daces With Wolves,
about a mile beyond Rough Rock Falls
Spearfish Canyon hiking and biking trails follow these trout-filled streams, the
Little Spearfish and the Spearfish Rivers.
Rough Rock Falls
In the Spearfish River and Little Spearfish River, the State stocks Brook and Rainbow Trout.
During the first week in August, the town of
Spearfish host bikers headed for Sturgis at its
huge campground
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Spearfish Canyon in South
Dakota is about 46 miles
west of Rapid City and 65
miles from Mount
Rushmore in the southwest
corner of South Dakota.
Spearfish Canyon area
offers some great views and
camping, hiking, and trout
fishing .  The campgrounds
are near enough to Sturgis
to attract visitors during
August Bike Week.