For Sale in the Black Hills
23670 Strato Rim Drive a@ Hwy 16 and Strato Rim Road
Black Hills Commercial Property
Between Rapid City and Keystone South Dakota
Commercial Land near Mt Rushmore & New Proposed Super Wal-Mart in the Black Hills of South Dakota, between Rapid City and Mt Rushmore, Hwy 16 Frontage $4.00 per sq ft (apx). Lot B $180,000.00 Lot C $180,000.00. Both for $350,000.00 Lot B and Lot C of Lot 1 of STRATO RIM ESTATES Pennington County South Dakota , frontage & corner lot US Highway 14 Zoned General Commercial Both Lots sit nearly half way between Rapid City and Mt Rushmore / Keystone. Lot C is a corner lot and has Highway 16 Frontage. US SD Highway 16 is one of the highest trafficked roads in South Dakota and the Main road to Americas Mt Rushmore. Lot B is 1.097 Acers (= or -), proximally 48,400 square feet with a newer 1800 sq foot home that could be converted to an office, store, gift shop or left as a home. Also on lot is a 880 square foot shop/storage building. All utilities are installed and working within the 1800 sq ft structure with power to the 88o sq ft structure. Lot B is accessed thru Lot C (a corner lot) via US Highway 16 or via Strato Rim Drive . Lot C is 1.014 acres (= or -), proximally 44,900 square feet with US Highway 16 frontage and Strato Rim Drive frontage, a corner lot. This lot contains a number of sculptors and displays at this time that will be removed at an agreed upon time. 95% of all Mt Rushmore bound and returns traffic passes the lots on US Highway 16.
About the Black Hills ;
The region is home to Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Harney Peak (the highest point east of the Rockies), Custer State Park (the largest state park in South Dakota, and one of the largest in the US), Bear Butte State Park, Devils Tower National Monument, and the Crazy Horse Memorial (the largest sculpture in the world). The Black Hills also hosts the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally each August started in 1940.
The George S. Mickelson Trail is a multi-use world class, state maintained trail through the Black Hills . It follows the abandoned track of the historic railroad route from Edgemont to Deadwood. The train used to be the only way to bring supplies to the miners in the Hills. The trail is about 110 miles in length, and can be used by hikers, cross-country skiers, trail riders, and bikers.
Today, the major city in the Black Hills is Rapid City , with an incorporated population of over 70,000 and a metropolitan population of 125,000. It serves a market area covering much of five states: North and South Dakota , Nebraska , Wyoming , and Montana . In addition to tourism and mining (including coal, specialty minerals, and the now declining gold mining), the Black Hills economy includes ranching (sheep and cattle, primarily, with buffalo and ratites becoming more common), timber (lumber), Ellsworth Air Force Base, and some manufacturing, including jewelry (Black Hills Gold Jewelry), cement, electronics, cabinetry, guns and ammunition. In many ways, the Black Hills functions as a very spread-out urban area with a population (not counting tourists) of 250,000. Other important Black Hills cities include Belle Fourche, a ranching town; Spearfish, home of Black Hills State University; Deadwood, a historic and well-preserved gambling mecca; its twin city of Lead, home of the Homestake Mine and the National Science Foundation for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory ; Keystone, outside Mount Rushmore; Hill City, a timber and tourism town in the center of the Hills; Custer, a mining and tourism town and headquarters for Black Hills National Forest.
About Rapid City ;
Rapid City
Rapid City is located at 44°4'34″N, 103°13'42″W. The downtown elevation of Rapid City is 3,202 feet (976 m) and Rapid City sits in the shadow of Harney Peak; which at 7,242 feet (2,207 m), is the highest point east of the Rockies in the continental USA .
Rapid City is located on the eastern edge of the Black Hills , and is split in half by the Dakota Hogback, which runs north-south at this point. "Westside" or "West Rapid" is located in the Red Valley or Racetrack between the foothills of the Black Hills proper and the Hogback, so named for the red Spearfish formation soils and the way the valley completely circles the Black Hills . The city has grown up into the foothills, with both ridges and valleys developed, especially in the last 20 years, and wildfire is a distinct threat to these residential areas, as shown by the Westberry Trails fire in 1988. Skyline Drive follows the crest of the Dakota Hogback south from near Rapid Gap (where Rapid Creek cuts through the Hogback) to a large high plateau which forms the current south edge of Rapid City . The Central and Eastern portions of Rapid Creek lie in the wide valley of Rapid Creek outside the Hogback, which includes a number of mesas rising a hundred feet or more above the creek.
Rapid Creek flows through Rapid City , emerging from Dark Canyon above Canyon Lake and flowing in a large arc through the Gap and north of Downtown, and then descending to the southeast as the valley widens. The floodplain of Rapid Creek is mostly undeveloped, one legacy of the Black Hills Flood of 1972. To the north, a series of ridges separates Rapid Creek from Box Elder Creek, with large older and new residential areas and commercial areas along I-90. To the south, the terrain rises more steeply to the southern widening of the Dakota Hogback into a plateau dividing the Rapid Creek drainage from Spring Creek
About South Dakota ;
The U.S. acquired the region as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and it was explored by Lewis and Clark in 1804–1806. Fort Pierre , the first permanent settlement, was established in 1817.
Settlement of South Dakota did not begin in earnest until the arrival of the railroad in 1873 and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in 1874.
Agriculture is a cultural and economic mainstay, but it no longer leads the state in employment or share of gross state product. Durable-goods manufacturing and private services have evolved as the drivers of the economy. Tourism is also a booming industry in the state, generating over a billion dollars' worth of economic activity each year.
South Dakota is the second-largest producer of flaxseed and sunflower seed in the nation. It is the third-largest producer of hay and rye.
The Black Hills are the highest mountains east of the Rockies . Mt. Rushmore , in this group, is famous for the likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, which were carved in granite by Gutzon Borglum. A memorial to Crazy Horse is also being carved in granite near Custer.
Other tourist attractions include the Badlands; the World's Only Corn Palace, in Mitchell; and the city of Deadwood , where gambling was recently legalized.
is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota , and the county seat of Pennington County . Rapid City is named after the Rapid Creek on which the city is established. Set against the eastern slope of the Black Hills, the 2005 estimated population of Rapid City was 67,167, and the population of the metropolitan area, defined as Pennington and Meade counties, was 138,763. Rapid City is known as the "Gateway to the Black Hills of South Dakota" and the "Star of the West." The city is divided by a small mountain range that splits the western and eastern parts of the city into two.
