Last time I went to the Black Hills we went the week after Labor Day. What we found is that many things shut down after Labor Day. Tuesday they were closed for the season. Make your plans ahead of time and call. We had desided to make the trip a week before. Our plan was to shoot from the hip. We had a few disappointments of things we wanted to see and places we would have liked to stay. The day we started our return, the wife wanted to do the Bad lands loupe until she was told that the temps that day would be near 120*. Scratch that idea. As we pull off for gas in Chamberlain S D the bank sign read 105*. They say it’s a dry heat. Ya.