We stopped to see this nice little Norwegian chapel just on the edge of Rapid City.
Bonnie found a brochure for a Petrified Forrest so we stopped to see it. It was a privately run museum, but very interesting. They had a video explaing how petrified rock is created, then we walked around a path though several pieces of petrified rock
This one is still partly burried, so we can see how it fell, and how it was dug out.
Hows this for a firewood stack? Except its all solid rock!
We had read a lot about the wonderful, historic Deadwood City, so we decided to spend a night there. At first it apeared nice, all the old buildings looked good. But after we parked and got walking around we found everything was a casino. The front facade of the buildings were still original, but behind them they had been replaced with large, single building that were just solid casinos.
They stage a gunfight to amuse the tourists, and we watched the shooting of Wild Bill Hitchcok.
We found the place rather depressing- there is nothing here but casinos, with lots of zombie looking old people sitting there feeding money into the slots. The local newspaper had a story about trying to save the only grocery store, but the hotel clerk told me that even it had a casino.
From Deadwood we went to Lead. This was the site of the world's largest silver mine at one time, and this huge open pit is now abandoned and slowly filling with water.
From Lead we headed up the Spearfish Canyon road. We walked into one waterfall, couldn't find another. But it was a very pretty ride, and took up to the edge of Wyoming.