The Needles Highway is more than a 14-mile road — it’s a spectacular drive through pine and spruce forests, plus meadows surrounded by birch and aspen, with rugged granite mountains, once thought of as the material to sculpture many of the US Presidents. The road’s name comes from the needlelike granite formations that seem to pierce the horizon along the highway, created by wind, rain, freezing, and thawing.
I traveled this 14 mile Needles Highway North to South from Hill City, SD stopping and hiking around Sylvan Lake, Center Lake and Stockade Lake, and slowing down at the single lane tunnels.
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