The Needles Highway -- Custer State Park

Part of the continuing legacy of Peter Norbeck, the Needles Highway in Custer State Park is an extraordinary man's masterpiece of art and engineering.  He mapped out a route through the Park to showcase "the Needles" in 1919.  The engineers said they could build the road, only if he would give them "enough dynamite!"  And that turned out to be 150,000 pounds!  But 2 years later the Needles opened and the grandest views became accessible to anyone with a car.

We drove the Needles Highway on our way to the trail head for Harney Peak.

Come along....

That tiny box is the CCC Lookout on Harney Peak...time to get hiking!