Grizzly Bear Creek

Grizzly Bear Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Grizzly bears once roamed the area, hence the name.

Type: Stream
Description: watercourse in South Dakota, United States
Also known as: “Grizzly Creek”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Rushmore.

Mount Rushmore

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, about 2 mi southwest of Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Mount Rushmore is situated 2 miles southwest of Grizzly Bear Creek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keystone and Etta.

Keystone

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Keystone is a tiny town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, at the entrance to the popular Mount Rushmore National Memorial. It offers a full range of accommodations, but at the price of a "tourist trap" veneer.

Etta

Locality

Etta, also known as Etta Camp and Etta Mine, is a ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. It was a successful mining town, known for its discovery of the largest spodumene crystal ever found.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Photo: ArthurTilton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a United States national memorial in the Black Hills of west South Dakota. This national icon features the monumental faces of four former Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln – blasted and carved from the white rock of a mountain.

Grizzly Bear Creek

Categories: watercourse and body of water
Location: Pennington, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.89332° or 43° 53′ 36″ north

Longitude

-103.42519° or 103° 25′ 31″ west

Elevation

4,350 feet (1,326 metres)

Open location code

85MRVHVF+8W

GeoNames ID

5765252

Wikidata ID

Q23047446

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Venetian—“Grizzly Bear Creek” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Grizzly Bear Creek (suba sa Tinipong Bansa)”
Cebuano: “Grizzly Bear Creek”
Dutch: “Grizzly Bear Creek”
Venetian: “Grizzly Bear Creek”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Henry Tin Mine and Buckeye Gulch.

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