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George S. Mickelson Trail
7-day forecast
Open-Meteo · trail point · local dates · last updated Nov 11, 2026, 3:10 PM PTWed 11
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GoodRoute
Route line © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), simplified. Dot: trail point.
About this trail
The George S. Mickelson Trail is a rail trail in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. It is one of two long-distance trails in Western South Dakota, the other being the nearby Centennial Trail, which is generally considered more challenging than the Mickelson Trail.
From the Wikipedia article “George S. Mickelson Trail”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trail facts
- Length
- 175 km · 109 mi (Wikidata)
- Countries
- United States
- Continent
- North America
- Trail point
- 43.33332, -103.78951 (OpenStreetMap route (first mapped point))
- OSM network
- rcn
- Wikidata
- Q5544174
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 2297255
- Official info
- gfp.sd.gov/parks/detail/george-s--mickelson-trai
Hiked it?
Log this hikeAdd a GPX file for the Verified Track badge. The first and last 500 m are trimmed off before anything is measured, and the file itself is not kept.
Photo: “Mickelson Trail Tunnel.jpg” by Jeff Goetz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
