The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-04
OF DAKOTAS
IS REVELATION To
OUR AUTO|STS
Black Hills Region Equal
T. Any Scenic District
in Country.
GRAND TOUR is ROUTED
DEVILS Lake and PickereI Lake
Grow in Favor with
Motorists.
GRAND TOUR is ROUTED

about their scenic show spots. the Da-
kotas have plenty of natural beauty
and wonders which might well be
shouted to the nation. AS a matter OF
scenic grandeur. both beautiful and
bizarre, our Dakotas, when one takes
an inventory of what they possess.
yield prestige TO none. Certainly our
motorists, without going outside our
state and sister commonwealth. may
chart a vacation automobile tour which
for novelty and charm has no counter
part in the whole nation. not excepting
the magnificent natural parks of the
Rocky Mountains.
With Devils Lake in the north, and
the Black Hills In the south. not to
mention the so-called Badlands, which
are not the least bad, automobilists in
the Dakotas are not hard put to plan
an automobile outing, and conserve
their state pride in the doing Of it.
All Dakota in much the same fashion
as the remainder OF the country has
heard of the Black Hills. that is TO say
they know them as "a mining district,
but not as one Of the most beautiful
show places in the world. They are
Justly called the Scenic Gem Of Amer
lea. Although they are but half the
height of the Rocky Mountains. and
hence are termed hills, Nature planned
them for mountains and embellished
them with all that makes picturesque
mountain scenery.
Cannot Tell Half
A book Of a thousand word pictures
could not present the Black Hills dis
trict with anything near its varied
beauty. With the exception of Yellow
stone Park no area of country possesses
such a galaxy of fantastic scenic
grandeur. Wind Cave should be one
Of the show places OF America. 1t is
greater than the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky, and more beautiful than
the Wyandotte Cave Of Indiana. No.
body knows how large it is, but one
hundred miles OF it's passages have been
explored.
The Badlands. Onyx Cave, Sylvan
Lake. White Rocks. Devils Tower, and
Spearish Canyon all league to make the
Black Hills district a Mecca for tourists,
once the wonder of them becomes
known. When considered in connection
with the topography of the district. the
Black Hills roads are excellent.
The Dakotas are not an expanse of
prairie from the Minnesota and Iowa
borders to the foothills. There are
many lakes throughout the country.
and some Of them possess a beauty un-
dreamed of by our motorists. or these
Devils Lake is the most ~pretentious
body of water in the Dakotas. 1t is al
ready the rallying point of many OF
our meetings, nevertheless our motor
AotS may ell kRA btAAtL acquainted
with it. Piekerel Lake in the Webster
region is a beautiful sheet of water.
which our Automobiles are finding is
worth a visit.
Certainly no visible reason exists to
keep the Dakota motorist from spend
ing his vacation on ar automobile tour,
and not cross the boundaries OF the Da-
kotas. The time is ripe when our auto
mobilists should discover the Dakotas,
and know them from one corner to the
other. Not only win the Quickening de-
velopment Of our cities and farms
arouse him to a greater sense of the
progress Of the Dakotas, but he will
find the beauty and novelty of Nature
which make vacation the balm of the
otherwise busy year.
Dakota Grand Tour
A grand tour OF the Dakotas Is just
the schooling our motorists need. and
everyone who has the time should take
IL without abridgment. This tour
should link on one circuit with the
Black Hills district as the ieweled set
ting OF the ring, Pierre. MITCHELL, Sioux
Falls. Bookings, Aberdeen. Fargo.
Grand Forks. Devils Lake. Bismark.
and Rapid City.
The tourist may begin this circuit
wherever he chooses, and may modify
il, or shorten it TO suit the needs Of his
vacation, and his wishes. 1t will af-
ford him visits 10 both the Black Hills
country and the Devils Lake region.
the two big show places of the Dakotas.
n he begins the tour. say at Fargo, he
should proceed to Grand Forks up tho
Red River valley. After an interesting
visit TO the points of interest at Grand
Forks, he turns west and reaches
Devils Lake by way of Akota. Thence
he motors to Bismark through Nc
Ciusky.
From Bismark he heads west to
Dickinson. where he turns south and
travels to Deadwoo by way of Ami
don, Bowman, Mason, and Bellefourche.
the site of the big u. S. irrigation
project.
After a thorough tour Of the Black
Hills district. which should not be
shortened except at the dictate of an
fnhexible necessity. the tourist visits
Rapid City, and then continues the way
down Rapid River canyon through the
adlan country.
On this return trip he gains an excel.
lent view of what South Dakota Is do.
ing at Pierre, Mitchell and Sioux Falls.
His trip north, the last leg of the tour.
may be routed either directly up the
state line through Bookings. or may
be charted to visit Webster. and the
Pickerel Lake region.
In case the grand tour Is too long for
a motorists vacation, he may shorten
II by the Aberdeen route - the DDA4s
wood region.