We took a short trip today to Palisades State Park in Garretson, South Dakota (just a few miles North of where we are). This place is quite unusual and has some unexpected sites since the area for miles around is flat corn and soybean fields yet the park is noted for its pink/purple Sioux quartzite rock formations. The rock formations which are said to be 1.2 Billion years old just go on for about 1/3 of a mile and then its back to flatlands.
Scene just outside the park
Entrance to the park
Sioux quartzite formations
Balanced Rock - hard to tess in the picture but this balanced rock is probably 50 feet tall
Bridge built in 1908 - we walked across it a couple times
Chimney Rock - probably 60+ feet tall
Donna climbing out of the gorge
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