2019 marks 30 years since the Centennial Trail was established so we thought “We’re supposed to know all about hiking in the Black Hills. It’s probably about time that we hike this thing.” With that in mind, we needed to decide how we were going to do it.
When most people think of Wind Cave National Park they naturally think of the cave that the park was named for, but it also has back country trails, buffalo, elk, antelope and more. There are several trails throughout the park, but since I am working on section hiking the Centennial Trail, that is the trail I chose. The Centennial Trail is a 111 mile trail that begins in Wind Cave National Park in the south and ends at the top of Bear Butte in the north. For my purposes, I set out to backpack all of the Centennial trail that is in Wind Cave Wind Cave National Park.
I had biked the Buzzards Roost area a few times before but it had been several years, so I finally had a Saturday when I didn’t have anything to do around the house and decided to revisit the area. It wasn’t a perfect day, about 60 degrees a little windy and spitting a few drops of rain but, all in all, not too bad for a late October day in the Black Hills. Buzzards Roost is the name of a rocky outcropping that overlooks a canyon that was carved by Rapid Creek. It’s located about 5 or 6 miles west of Rapid City on highway 44.
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