Horse Thief Campground & Resort
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Sylvan Lake is a lake located in Custer State Park, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States. It was created in 1891 when Theodore Reder built a dam (the Sylvan Lake Water Dam) across Sunday Gulch Creek. The lake area offers picnic places, rock climbing, small rental boats, swimming, and hiking trails. It is also popular as a starting point for excursions to Black Elk Peak and The Needles

Black Elk Peak, formerly known as Harney Peak, is the highest natural point in the Black Hills mountain range and the U.S. state of South Dakota. It lies in the Black Elk Wilderness area, in southern Pennington County, in the Black Hills. The peak lies 3.7 mi (6.0 km) west-southwest of Mount Rushmore. At 7,244 feet (2,208 m), It was once discussed to be a potential candidate for the highest summit

🛒 Amenities & services
🛒 Groceries
- Convenience
- Heart Of The Hills
- Krull's Market
⛽ Fuel
- Fuel station
Exxon
Conoco
🍽️ Food & drink
- General Store
- Laughing Water Restaurant
- Desperados Cowboys Restaraunt
➕ Medical
- Monument Health Custer Hospital
- Carson Drug
🚰 Drinking water
- Drinking water
🚻 Toilets & showers
- Public toilets
🎾 Sports
- Swimming pool
- Skateboard
- Soccer
🏧 ATM & bank
- ATM
- First Interstate Bank
- Sentinel Federal Credit Union
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