Spearfish SD, Camping In South Dakota for Hiking
Biking, and Camping
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,
(Route 14 on some maps)  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.
Tent and RV camping is available at Rod
and Gun  for $15 per night, $7.50 with
Golden Age Pass. This is National Forest
land.   Self-pay envelopes, correct change
advisable.  The sites are small sites with
no shade at the Rod and Gun camp.

  • Timon Campground
Shade is available at the Timon Camp,
about 2 miles away from the Rod and Gun
Campground on the same Roughlock
Falls road.
No dump stations available at these sites.

Enter at Savoy  for the Roughlock Falls
road and go three miles to the Rod and
Gun Campground, or two more miles to
the Timon sites. Pick an unoccupied site,
pay at the kiosk, and clip your receipt to
the post.
Other campgrounds are available at
Spearfish, the large Spearfish City
campground near 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 first week in
August rally at Sturgis ND occasionally make the
park a stop on the way..
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 Roughlock 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 Roughlock Falls
Spearfish Canyon
hiking and biking
trails follow these
trout-filled streams,
the Little Spearfish
and the Spearfish
Rivers.

The streams are
stocked with rainbow
and brown trout.

The City of Spearfish
has a large fish
hatchery/ museum  
and a large city
campgrounds  in the
center of the village.
Roughlock Falls and trail beside the stream
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 at
its huge
campground.
The town is
close to
Sturgis on I-90
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Camping Spearfish Canyon
Spearfish is in the southwest corner of
South Dakota about 46 miles west of
Rapid City and 65 miles from Mount
Rushmore.  
  • Rod and Gun Campground
The rod and Gun Campground in
Spearfish Canyon area offers some great
views and camping and hiking .  the site is
on SD 220, the Roughlock Falls road, a
dirt road in 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.
Spearfish Canyon SD Roughlock Falls
Spearfish SD, Camping In South Dakota offers Hiking and
Biking in A National Forest Preserve With Three Waterfalls.
The Rod and Gun and Timon Campgrounds are open for
rustic camping near dirt roads for biking and hiking trails.
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Rod and Gun Campground RV and
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To Reach Spearfish Canyon Camping
Rod and Gun Campground,  Roughlock
Falls road.  Tent and RV, No dump stations
available at these sites.
Hiking biking, fishing and sightseeing are
plentiful near Rod and Gun and Timon
Campgrounds on the Roughlock Falls road.