DEVIL’S GULCH IS FREE TO VISIT ON YOUR OWN.

1 DEVIL'S GULCH IS FREE TO. VISIT ON YOUR OWN. This is an excellent photo No. 9: DEVIL'S FALLS CROSS. area of the Jesse James BRIDGE Below is the waterfall Jump Bridge. Return to the and colorful canyon which is uphill marker and proceed spring fed and water from a to top of hill. natural drainage which flows No. 4: UPPER TRAIL from the east. The water only OBSERVATION AREA flows after the winter snow Follow the path to your left for melt or for a period after rain. a scenic overlook and photo No. 10: EXIT Use the steps area of Devil's GULCH . The and follow the trail to the log quartzite appears different cabin and parking lot. shades due to weather Please stay on the desig- ** We encourage you to VISIT Please note: Only people in elements and lighting.

2 Good health and able to walk on nated trails to help preserve the Log Cabin Information Return to uphill trail to and climb rock steps should go the beauty of the GULCH for Center and view exhibits of the continue. on the tour. Those unable to take future generations. There is No. 5: ROCK PATH: - In this area. Hosts are on duty and will the tour may meet their party at cactus growing in the rock on the Log Cabin. Please use area the quartzite lies flat like try to answer any questions. various places. Watch for it, caution when walking on the a cobblestone sidewalk. The rock. as it is painful when stuck Geology: First records show patch of wild sumac is now Jesse James Bridge: The foot into your skin. Moses Armstrong surveyed this dead due to a plant fungus.

3 Bridge marks the spot where in No. 1: CEDAR OBSERVATION area in 1864. The area was 1876, outlaw Jesse James No. 6: WATERFALL. POINT Look across the called the HILLS OF THE. coaxed his horse to jump the OBSERVATION POINT This canyon at the cliff wall and PRAIRIE. The GULCH is of glacial ravine in order to evade the is the point where Devil's posse that was close behind. you will see cedar trees origin, the aftermath of ice GULCH forks off into two Don't let the water below the growing out of the rock. sheets during the PLEISTCENE. directions. Look straight bridge deceive you. There are What appears to be dead EPOCH. Some believe this area areas in the canyon reported to ahead, and you will see the branches are actually the once was covered by a great be so deep, they are bottomless.

4 Devil's Falls. During drought tree roots. Cedar trees are sea that extended as far west as Just under the bridge is known conditions, the water falls as Bottomless Pit. Many years the only evergreen tree na- Mitchell, South Dakota (80 miles may not be running, but the ago a 600 foot plumb line was tive to South Dakota. Their to the west). The earliest view is still beautiful. When lowered and no bottom was needles are short and scaly. glaciers deposited a thin layer found. The current is also the falls are running, the The cones are blue and berry of debris on top of the quartzite, extremely powerful in areas of water seems to appear out of like. Native Indians boiled bed of red pipestone 9catlinite). the stream even though it nowhere, but there is an appears dark and oily.

5 The cones in water for cough may be found. This red claylike underground spring. The Trail Head: (Cross Bridge) The medicine. Cedar wood is stone was easily worked into water tumbles to the bottom trail head starts you on a journey fragrant and is used to line pipe bowls and ornaments by of colorful reddish Sioux of the GULCH and continues on closets and chests. You will early Indians. Pipestone is Quartzite (or Jasper) rock. The it's way to the Dam in Split see several cedar trees at considered sacred by Indians. rock has been dated to an age of Rock Park. 1,2000 million years and in some Devil's GULCH . You are at the places, is believed to be 3,000 to top of an unusual narrow No. 7: DEVIL'S STARIWAY. 4,000 feet thick.

6 You will notice crevice in the quartzite. AND KITCHEN Only the spots on the rock that look like No. 2: BOTTOM OBSERVA- experienced climber should spilled paint. This is called TION POINT From this point attempt to descend down the lichen and it is the first sign of life on rock. Lichen grows at the you get a good view looking rock stairway. Near the rate of one inch or less in a up at the Jesse James bottom is Devil's Kitchen. century. Depending on the wind Bridge. Notice how the Sioux The kitchen is about 8 feet by PLEASE HELP. of the day, strange moaning sounds may be heard in various Quartzite rock in this area 10 feet. There is a 20 foot KEEP OUR. appears to be stacked drop from the kitchen to the places in Devil's GULCH .

7 One will then easily understand how the blocks. The reason why is bottom of the ravine. Notice PARKS CLEAN. canyon got it's name. Spirit one of the mysteries of sharp edges of wall on your canyon is another name for Devil's GULCH . You will also right and smooth edges of Devil's GULCH . **. notice gold colored lichen on the rock wall and blue-gray rocks on your left. It's another mystery of the GULCH . **. From this point on, follow the mineral deposits. numbers on posts. Along the No. 8: PLATEAU. trail you will find wild flowers No. 3: TOWERING ROCK OB- OBSERVATION POINT This THANK YOU. such as South Dakota's State SERVATION POINT: Con- Flower, the pasque, which tinue west on the trail up to point is another beautiful FOR VISITING.

8 B l ooms i n e arl y sp ring . view of the Sioux Quartzite the edge of the stream. At Columbine, violet, and rose Rock. Across the GULCH the the end of the trail, you will be which all bloom at various times rock lies relatively level and of the summer. stopped by towering rock. appears to be a plateau. of nowhere, the Devil's INTRIGUING DEVIL'S GULCH Stairway with the in the solid rock, thus Devil's Kitchen at the A road off 5th street in side of Split Rock forming Devil's GULCH . bottom, along with Garretson leads you to River and Jesse rode Another legend other unique scenery. a tree hidden canyon on the east side not of the GULCH concerns The trail leads you to known as Devil's knowing Devil's GULCH the story of Nellie the bottom where you GULCH .

9 It is a natural laid ahead. The Harding. Nellie, her can view nature at it's chasm which features brothers later met father, mother and best. A tributary scenic rock formations south of Garretson at brother were headed leading to Split Rock of red quartzite and is the area now known as to Dakota Territory in a River flows from the the home of the Palisade State Park. covered wagon. While east to the bottom of famous jump of outlaw There they rested in a camped on the banks the chasm. The water Jesse James. small cave for a few of the Sioux River, the appears slow moving, While standing days before riding on family was murdered but it is reported areas at the foot bridge in into Nebraska. by some Indians led by are so deep, they are Devil's GULCH , imagine The early a white renegade.

10 Thought to be the outlaw Jesse Indians believed the They captured Nellie bottomless. There are James riding as fast as canyon came to being and brought her to also powerful his horse can gallop as a result of the Spirit, Devil's GULCH . The undercurrents. The because a posse from Iktomi hurling his young girl's lover, Dick hiking trail is Northfield, Minnesota tomahawk in anger at Willowby, had a vivid recommended to see is hot on his trail. a warrior named Ha- dream of the event at all of Devil's GULCH but Jesse approaches the Shootch-Ga. Ha- his home in Wisconsin. the trail may be too chasm, quickly Shootch-Ga was He immediately set out difficult for those who summarizes the causing trouble by to rescue his Nellie have trouble walking.