Sturgis: The Motorcycle Rally That Transforms the Black Hills Each August
Sturgis has hosted an annual motorcycle rally during the first week of August since 1938, when nine riders organized what they called the Black Hills Motor Classic. The rally has grown into one of the largest gatherings of motorcyclists in the world, routinely drawing 500,000 or more attendees to a city whose permanent population is 6,688. Main Street closes to motor vehicle traffic for the duration and lines up with vendors, bike shops, and temporary tattoo parlors. Total visitor spending during rally week regularly exceeds $800 million across the Black Hills.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame on Junction Avenue displays more than 100 historic motorcycles and rally memorabilia year-round. Bear Butte State Park, six miles northeast of the city, preserves a 1,253-foot laccolith that is sacred to the Lakota and Cheyenne peoples and rises isolated from the surrounding prairie. Pilgrims leave prayer cloths tied to trees along the trail to the summit.
Fort Meade, now a Veterans Affairs medical campus, operated as a U.S. Army cavalry post from 1878 until 1944 on the east side of Sturgis. The 7th Cavalry was garrisoned there after Little Bighorn, and the post played a role in the Ghost Dance campaigns of 1890. Sturgis sits in Meade County, which is the second-largest county in the contiguous United States by area (behind San Bernardino County in California).
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Sturgis has hosted an annual motorcycle rally during the first week of August since 1938, when nine riders organized what they called the Black Hills Motor Classic. The rally has grown into one of the largest gatherings of motorcyclists in the world, routinely drawing 500,000 or more attendees to a city whose permanent population is 6,688. Main Street closes to motor vehicle traffic for the duration and lines up with vendors, bike shops, and temporary tattoo parlors. Total visitor spending during rally week regularly exceeds $800 million across the Black Hills.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame on Junction Avenue displays more than 100 historic motorcycles and rally memorabilia year-round. Bear Butte State Park, six miles northeast of the city, preserves a 1,253-foot laccolith that is sacred to the Lakota and Cheyenne peoples and rises isolated from the surrounding prairie. Pilgrims leave prayer cloths tied to trees along the trail to the summit.
Fort Meade, now a Veterans Affairs medical campus, operated as a U.S. Army cavalry post from 1878 until 1944 on the east side of Sturgis. The 7th Cavalry was garrisoned there after Little Bighorn, and the post played a role in the Ghost Dance campaigns of 1890. Sturgis sits in Meade County, which is the second-largest county in the contiguous United States by area (behind San Bernardino County in California).
Escortservice.com reviews and lists escort websites operating in the Sturgis and Black Hills region. The site functions only as a directory and does not schedule appointments, confirm licensing, or act as a go-between for any party. Users must be 21 and older to access the platform.
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