Update, Appreciation and Progress

Recap In 2013 the City of Sturgis approved the donation of funds to our organization to purchase trail equipment that would help to develop a new trail on City property-The Lions Club Park Trail. Formal trail building began last September and was completed in...

Generating aerial tiles from NAIP imagery

PahaSapaTrails.com is working on a mobile (iPhone/Android) trail mapping application for the Black Hills area and one of the chief considerations is making it work offline. As any local can tell you, cellular service can be spotty in the Hills, even in town in some...

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 the Victoria Network, the distance for each trail segment is listed at the end of the description of that segment. For trails...

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.