South Dakota Motorcycle Ride: Exploring the Badlands and Black Hills

South Dakota Motorcycle Ride: Exploring the Badlands and Black Hills
Badlands National Park can be a busy place in the summer, but if you take roads less traveled, you can challenge your off-pavement skills and have views all to yourself. (Photos by the author) In River-Horse, William Least Heat-Moon’s book about his journey across the United States by boat, he mentions carrying a small sign with the Quaker aphorism: “Proceed as the Way Opens.” That phrase is my motto for both motorcycle travel and life in general, and it certainly applied to the trip my long-time riding buddy Howard and I took through western South Dakota. Scan QR code above or click here to view the route on REVER Dealing with storms and changing road conditions meant that we had to continually rethink our plans to ride through Badlands National Park and the Black Hills BDR-X adventure route on our small dual-sports – my Honda CRF300L Rally… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
RIDER MAGAZINE – Motorcycles | Sports & RecreationTue, June 24, 2025
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