Black Elk Peak

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Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak

Black Elk Peak

height 2208  m
location Pennington County , South Dakota , USA
Mountains Black Hills
Coordinates 43 ° 51 '58 "  N , 103 ° 31' 54"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 51 '58 "  N , 103 ° 31' 54"  W.
Black Elk Peak, South Dakota
Black Elk Peak
Development Lookout point
particularities highest point in South Dakota

The Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak) forms with its 2208 meters the highest point in the US state of South Dakota and the Black Hills . Located in Pennington County , it is the highest mountain in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains .

Named the mountain after Black Elk , the medicine man of the Oglala - Lakota - Indians . The mountain was named from 1855 to August 11, 2016 after General William S. Harney (1800-1889) Harney Peak , who commanded the troops against the Brulé-Lakota in the Battle of Ash Hollow . The United States Board on Geographic Names changed the official name to Black Elk Peak on August 11, 2016 , to honor Black Elk, after whom the wilderness area is named. On the summit of the Black Elk Peaks there is a stone lookout , which used to be a fire lookout. There is also a small dam . The elevation is in the Black Hills National Forest .

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