“Slim Butte Area”

80 Square Miles of Nature’s Wonders – A National Forest WHAT TO SEE

The SLIM BUTTES are an elevated land mass between the GRAND AND MOREAU Rivers in the shape of a huge ‘I’ 20 miles N & S -10 miles E & W. The N, W & S sides are sheer ESCARPMENTS or steep declivities. The E side is a series of inter-connected valleys. At places the distance between the E & W watershed is but a few rods.

ROADS. County, always passable. Forest, good weather only.

NATIONAL FOREST. The great bulk of area is in Custer National Forest – a region of wonderful vistas as noted below.

VISTAS

South GRAND & CAVE HILLS 15 mi.

NORTH BUTTE & Battlefield 6

Wooded glen & West L-50

Battleship & Steamboat Rocks ½

Reva Cap & Valley 2

NORTH BUTTE & Range 3

J.B. Rock & FLAT TOP 3-10

West Escarpment 1/2-5

West Escarpment ½-10

BLACK HILLS 70 – Scattered Buttes – Moreau – Crooks Exit in 1876 with trains and wounded.

Summit Pass ½, Moreau & BH 70

Rabbit Valley – Interior Buttes

South Escarpment, ½-5, a stupendous view

Three Sisters & South ½-30

Sheep Mt. & Moreau 3-30

SE to FLAT TOP 5-30

N across Valley to Pink Butte ‘You Ain’t Seen Nuthin Yet’”

Harding County, roadside park on Highway 20 (1988)