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...

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...

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...

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.