Spring Creek Road

The turn off from the highway is easy to find. Smaller trailers or overlanding setups are best here. It may not be so kind for getting trailers turned around.

The access road is simple dirt and gravel with very little rough spots and no washboard on it.

Make sure you've got mosquito repellent.

The views and settings are plush, magical, quiet, with a small babbling stream winding through the forest, camp sites and meadows. There are no fires allowed and it's clearly posted.

I loved this place and was inspired to compose poetry overlooking a meadow with deer feeding in the morning. Absolutely beautiful! I'd stay here again and it felt safe too.

The campsite I stayed at was right on the creek.  Great, secluded spot.  Didn't see many cars at all.  No bugs though I imagine they would be brutal in the summer.

We went pretty far down Spring Rd and passed multiple spots in search of one where we could set up our Starlink and ended up at a spot down by the creek where we only had 3 or 4 vehicles pass by on the road the whole day.

Mosquitos were insane but besides that this was the quiet spot we were looking for after Rapid City during Sturgis

Was easy to drive in. The road wasn’t too rough. Got there in the dark was able to find a spot, can be hard to see the turn off to the sites at night. Didn’t see many places I would want to pull a camper into but great for ground tents, rooftop tents and camper vans.

This is dispersed camping so there are no services. Bring your own water and take with you all of your garbage. The spots within the first mile are no camping allowed. Just keep going and you’ll be happy. The road winds along the creek between rocky formations and trees. There are plenty of spots to pull into to camp. We saw larger sites and narrow ones you could back into. There was one other van camping down this way when we showed up. Cell service diminished as we drove in. The other folks walked back along the road to get a signal. Choose your site carefully because we also saw cows eating their way along the road. This is a beautiful spot right in an incredible area of the Black Hills.