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BLACK HILLS PIONEER | 2019 Visitspearfish.Com 1 Spearfish BLACK HILLS PIONEER | 2019 visitspearfish.com 1 Spearfish... Your destination for fun! This magazine presents only a small portion of the treasures waiting to be discovered by our visitors year-round. We look forward to seeing you in town; we will be sure to offer you a warm welcome. Mistie Caldwell Executive Director, Visit Spearfish, Inc. Spearfish Introduction .................................................................. 3-5 Outdoor Lifestyle ......................................................................6 & 7 Spearfish Creek ............................................................................... 9 Spearfish Area Hiking ............................................................10 & 11 INDEX Downtown Spearfish ..............................................................12 &13 Matthews Opera House and Arts Center ................................ 15-17 D.C. Booth Historic Fish Hatchery ........................................... 19-21 High Plains Western Heritage Center ........................................... 23 Birding in Spearfish ....................................................................... 25 Motorcycle Riding ......................................................................... 27 Climbing ................................................................................... 28-29 Winter Sports ................................................................................ 30 Snowmobiling ................................................................................ 31 Spearfish Canyon Self Guided Tour & Map ............................. 33-35 The above photos were submitted by readers inspired Waterfalls of Spearfish Canyon ..................................................... 37 by the beauty and community of Spearfish. Fall Colors ..................................................................................... 39 Disc Golf ........................................................................................ 40 Watch this publication come to life and Off-Road/UHV Trail System ........................................................... 41 experience a sample of what Spearfish has Bicycling ................................................................................... 42-43 to offer with our interactive app! Marathons ..................................................................................... 45 Geocaching ................................................................................... 46 1. Go to the App store. Camping ........................................................................................ 47 2. Search for Explore Black Hills Pioneer. Spearfish Sasquatch: Expedition League Baseball........................ 48 3. Download the FREE app. Golfing ........................................................................................... 49 4. Look for the icon throughout this publication. Parks & Recreation ........................................................................ 52 5. Using the app on your device, scan the tagged Waterpark ...................................................................................... 53 image and see what happens next! Fishing ........................................................................................... 54 Hunting ......................................................................................... 55 Available on Android and Apple mobile devices. Black Hills State University Activities ............................................ 56 Welcome to Spearfish is a special publication of Group Event Planning ................................................................... 57 the Black Hills Pioneer in cooperation with Lodging in Spearfish ..................................................................... 58 Visit Spearfish. © 2019 Black Hills Pioneer Dining in Spearfish ................................................................... 60-61 Nightlife in Spearfish ..................................................................... 62 For more information about items in this publication: Worship in Spearfish ...................................................................... 63 Visit Spearfish • 603 N. Main St., Spearfish, SD Visitor Information ......................................................................... 64 (605) 717-9294 • www.visitspearfish.com Spearfish Community Map ....................................................66 & 67 Produced and published by: Nearby Attractions: BLACK HILLS PIONEER Mount Rushmore National Memorial ............................................ 50 14 3 315 Seaton Cir., Spearfish, SD 57783 YEARS Devils Tower National Monument ................................................. 44 Since 1876 (605) 642-2761 • www.bhpioneer.com A special thank you to photographers Les Heiserman, Heidi Watson, and J&L Photography for their contributions to this publication. Publisher: Letti Lister; Editor: Mark Watson; Layout: Melissa Barnett; Front cover photo (main) - J&L Photography; Smaller photos (L-R) - SD Tourism, Les Heiserman, Jake Servaty; Back cover photos - SD Tourism 2 visitspearfish.com Photo by Les Heiserman “Path Les Traveled” SPEARFISH: Its natural setting connects to its colorful history BY PAUL HIGBEE yon is Spearfish Creek, a mighty 40-mile highway from Spearfish. From the lodge, FOR THE BLACK HILLS PIONEER mountain stream that drops 3,000 feet two easy hikes along the canyon floor To say nature awaits you in Spearfish over its short course. lead you to Roughlock Falls and Spear- is an understatement. Nature asserts The creek carved Spearfish Canyon, fish Falls. A more strenuous hike brings itself here, grabs you by the senses, and a place of high limestone cliffs, water- you to the high rim at Buzzard’s Roost. in some cases never lets go. falls, towering spruces, Ponderosa pines, Spearfish Creek created this setting It gets into your blood by way of aspens, birches, burdocks and box elders. over millions of years, and it has also pine-scented breezes, bugling elk, the feel One-hundred-thirty bird species call the splashed its way through human history of icy creek waters numbing your feet on canyon home, including eagles that glide in recent centuries. Flowing strong even hot summer days, and silvery moonrises the gorge’s wind currents, and dippers in the driest years, the creek drew plains that turn Lookout Mountain aglow. that submerge themselves in the creek natives who regularly camped along its Nature surrounds Spearfish, but it to feed on aquatic bugs. A good place low banks. Brooklyn-born Daniel Toom- seems to flow especially from Spearfish to experience this abundant nature in ey traveled west to hunt buffalo and first Canyon, a deep gorge descending from full glory can be found next to Spearfish saw Spearfish Creek in May, 1876, with the northern–most reach of the Black Canyon Lodge, 13 miles up the canyon Hills. Also flowing from Spearfish Can- CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 visitspearfish.com 3 But how is it that I’ve heard so little of this miracle and we, toward the Atlantic, have heard so much of the “Grand Canyon when this is even more miraculous. All the better eventually ... that the Dakotas are not on the through line to the Coast ... My hat is off to South Dakota treasures. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright Famous American architecht and designer A year-round retreat for the senses Photo by Heidi Watson/Watson Photography 4 visitspearfish.com Photo by Perry Jewitt Photo by Laura Heisinger Photo by Cassidy Schoenfelder CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 no man-made structures anywhere in In 1893 railroad tracks were built the Spearfish power plant, Homestake sight. After the town of Spearfish took alongside the creek in hopes that mining diverted creek water through a remark- root that same year, Toomey harnessed would develop in the canyon, and in able series of eight tunnels cut through the creek’s water power and built a flour 1899 a federal trout hatchery took form solid rock for about six miles. mill. The mill remained a successful along the water on Spearfish’s south Toomey’s mill is long gone. Canyon Spearfish industry far into the 20th side. The hatchery produced trout for mines were short-lived and the canyon century. Also eyeing the creek for the first sportsmen not only in the Black Hills, but railway washed away in a 1933 flood. time in 1876 was Irish-born Robert Ev- across the West. After 125 years, Homestake dug out its ans, a self-taught engineer who devised a Early in the 20th century Spearfish last gold in 2001. But the creekside trout means of irrigating the wide valley where Creek made possible one of the great hatchery is now the archival, interpretive Spearfish sits. He and friends dug an American engineering projects of the and educational site for the entire federal ingenious web of irrigation ditches and era. Homestake Gold Mine of Lead fisheries program. The Homestake pow- correctly calculated that the valley’s steep built two hydroelectric power plants in er plants still stand in tribute to the great drop to the north would carry water to the canyon and another on Spearfish’s mine and the one at Spearfish produces distant fields. Robert Evans and his wife southern edge, for the purpose of bring- some power for the community. Robert Rebecca, Spearfish’s first teacher, grew ing electricity to its mine. Homestake’s Evans’ irrigation system works today as grains and fruits not only for Spearfish, success turned the mine into the western well as it did 140 years ago and keeps but for Black Hills towns in high, rocky hemisphere’s biggest
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