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Place in South Dakota, United States

Three Forks, South Dakota
Place
Three ForksLocation of Three Forks in South Dakota.
Coordinates: 43°57′03″N 103°30′50″W / 43.95083°N 103.51389°W / 43.95083; -103.51389
Country	United States
State	South Dakota
County	Pennington
Time zone	UTC-7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
Area code	605

Road junction

Three Forks

Location
Roads at junction	US 16 & US 385
Construction
Maintained by	South Dakota Department of Transportation

Three Forks is an unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It lies at the intersection of U.S. Routes 16 and 385, just north of Hill City along Spring Creek. A small general store featuring fuel is open year-round; other businesses are open seasonally, including a campground, a motel, a miniature golf-course, and an ice-cream stand. The campground is the site of an annual Octoberfest event, and the area is heavily patronized during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August of each year. In recent years, considerable residential development of the immediate area has swollen its population.

From Three Forks:

East (US 16) to the Keystone Wye and Rapid City.
North (US 385) to Sheridan Lake, Lead, and Deadwood.
South (US 16 and US 385 multiplexed) to Hill City and Custer.

Three Forks is one of several places in the Black Hills where there are two routes indicated by highway signage directing travelers to Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
County seat: Rapid City
Cities	Box Elder‡ Hill City New Underwood Rapid City
Towns	Keystone Quinn Wall Wasta
CDPs	Ashland Heights Caputa Colonial Pine Hills Green Valley Johnson Siding Rapid Valley
Former CDP	Ellsworth AFB‡
Other communities	Ajax Creston Deerfield Farmingdale Hisega Imlay Mystic Owanka Rochford Rockerville Scenic Silver City Three Forks
Ghost towns	Addie Camp Conata Creighton Etta Moon Myers City Pactola Pedro Redfern Sheridan Teddy Bear Tigerville
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming

Attractions

Scenic routes

Roads	Norbeck Scenic Byway Iron Mountain Road Needles Highway Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway
Trails	Black Hills Centennial Trail George S. Mickelson Trail

Populated
places

Cities	Belle Fourche Central City Custer Deadwood Edgemont Hot Springs Hill City Lead Newcastle Rapid City Spearfish Sturgis Whitewood
Towns	Buffalo Gap Fairburn Hermosa Keystone Pringle Sundance
Unincorporated	Dewey Four Mile Galena Hanna Johnson Siding Nemo Rochford Rockerville Silver City Three Forks

History
and people

Native American	Cheyenne Lakota people Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) established the Great Sioux Reservation Black Hills War, or Great Sioux War (1876) Black Elk Sitting Bull Crazy Horse Lone Horn Red Cloud Spotted Tail
Old West	Dakota Territory (1861–1889) Black Hills Expedition (1874) Black Hills gold rush (1874) Newton–Jenney Party (1875) Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route (1876–1887) Sidney-Black Hills Stage Road (1876–1887) Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad (1893–1947) Seth Bullock and Martha Bullock General George Armstrong Custer Dora DuFran Wild Bill Hickok Calamity Jane Historian Doane Robinson Sol Star Al Swearengen Charlie Utter
Ghost towns	Addie Camp Bismuth Blacktail Burdock Cambria Carbonate Etta Flatiron Greenwood Maitland Myers City Mystic Nahant Novak Pactola Sheridan Spokane Terraville Tigerville Tinton Trojan
Modern	Fossil Cycad National Monument (1922–1957) Stratobowl (1934–1959) Black Hills flood (1972) 2000 Jasper Fire Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and Lincoln Borglum Author Joseph Bottum Politician Francis Case Poet Charles Badger Clark Historian Watson Parker

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