{"id":14633,"date":"2023-09-13T22:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T03:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14633"},"modified":"2023-09-13T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T03:12:02","slug":"skywatch-friday-big-sioux-recreation-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14633","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday – Big Sioux Recreation Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While in South Dakota in August for a family reunion, I had a little free time so I went to the nearby Big Sioux Recreation Area<\/a> near Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a sizeable state park featuring a lot of different terrain. River bottoms, prairie, forest, valleys and hills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From a low point in the park to the highest point, where I also hiked.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It has a moderate entrance fee and like it seems everything else in the Midwest, is impeccably maintained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A small geocache hanging in a tree<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went their for the hiking and geocaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had the place to myself during the weekday that I was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Big Sioux River winds through the park. Tell the truth the Big Sioux River seems to everywhere in my family history. Our family church is near the Big Sioux River and many of my relatives were baptized in it. It runs through Dell Rapids where many of my family live and where the reunion is held. It is one of those long winding rivers that seems to be everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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