“Slim Butte Area”
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
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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’”
Location
Harding County, roadside park on Highway 20 (1988)