Scavenger characterMickelson Trail Scavenger Hunt

Along the 114 miles of the trail, you'll find interpretive signs located at significant sites. As you explore the trail, search for the answers to the questions below, and you could win a Mickelson Trail t-shirt and hat.

You'll find answers to the questions on interpretive signs on the trail. Once you have found all the answers, send in this completed form.

All the forms that are correct based on the information found on the interpretive signs will be included in drawings to be held in early July, early August and early September. Forms received between drawings will be included in the next drawing. Winners of each drawing will receive a Mickelson Trail t-shirt and a Mickelson Trail hat.

Print the form, complete the answers and mail it to: GSMT Trail Office, 11361 Nevada Gulch Rd, Lead, SD 57754
  1. In what town was Annie Tallent a teacher and postmistress? ________________
  2. What trailhead is closest to the highest point on the Mickelson Trail? ________________
  3. What was the name of the photographer who traveled with George Custer to the Black Hills? _________________
  4. Where was the water too hard to use in the steam locomotives so water had to be hauled in? __________________
  5. How many days did it take to build the 114-mile Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from Edgemont to Deadwood (now the Mickelson Trail)? _________________
  6. Where is the old 700’ railroad trestle that had to be made into an earthen dam because the wooden structure got too rickety? _________________
  7. Where was uranium ore mined for nuclear development? _____________
  8. In what year was Korczak Ziolkowski born? ______________________
  9. Where was beryllium mined? _________________________________
  10. What is the present name of a place once called "Ten Mile?" _________________
  11. How many miles of underground tunnels did Homestake Mine operate? _________________
  12. What place was once known as "Point of Rocks?" __________________
  13. In what year was gold discovered at a place called Montana City? _____
  14. What is the name of the mine that was one of the first in the world to use cyanide leaching to extract gold? _____________________________
  15. Where did the Black Hills Silica and Sand Corporation operate? ________________________

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Your name _____________________________________________________________

Mailing Address _________________________________________________________

City _________________________________ State ________ Zip Code ____________

Phone Number ________________________

Email ________________________________

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