Belle Fourche Hunting

When frontiersmen first set sight on this region of rolling prairies and rugged river breaks in the late 1800's, they discovered waist-high grasslands and the treailhead to an emerald oasis known as the Black Hills.

What's in Belle?

Community Center

Belle Fourche Area Community Center opened in 1992. It's 67,000 square foot facility features an indoor pool with a water slide.

Belle Events

Special Events

July 3rd Fireworks

4th of July Parade

Seth Bullock's RiverFest Days

Black Hills Area

National Parks

The vast Black Hills offers multiple parks such as the Badlands National Park, Bear Butte State Park, and of course the1.2 million acres of the Black Hills National Forest.

Area Hunting Information

Are you interested in hunting in the Belle Fourche area? We have listed some resources that may help you whether you are a resident or coming from out of town.

If you need a place to store your animal, or would like to have it processed and packaged here in Belle Fourche, Grandview Locker & Storage has storage lockers available, they do skinning and caping, and do full service processing including cold meat cuts & jerky! Ask for Fred Carlson @ 605-892-3866, 716 10th Ave, Belle Fourche.

Integrity Meats also does processing of wild game. (No birds, but will freeze turkeys.) They do 24 hr processing for out of state hunters, and will do partial and full caping. They will also trade out your trim for sausage! Call Integrity Meats @ 605-723-6328,
404 Industrial St, Belle Fourche.

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks

Fishing Western SD

Hunting Opportunities

This is a list of other hunting opportunities in the Belle Fourche area. It is not complete, and is a work in progress. If you would like to have your information added to this page please contact us at member@bellefourche.org or call 605-892-2676 and ask for Tracy Shellhammer.

Jumpoff Buffalo Ranch

Center of the Nation Outfitters

Belle Fourche River Game Preserve & Lodge

Belle Fourche Reservoir (Orman Dam)

East of Belle Fourche off U.S. 212
National Register 11/23/77

Belle Fourche Dam is a principal feature of the Belle Fourche Project, which was among the first irrigation projects constructed under the Reclamation Act of 1902. The primary purpose of the dam is to store water for agricultural use downstream in the general vicinity of Newell, Vale, and Nisland, South Dakota. The dam is a massive homogeneous earth-filled structure with a crest length of 6,262 feet. When completed in 1911, the dam was the largest of its type in the world at 8000 acres. In April 1989, Belle Fourche Dam was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. Recreational activiies include fishing for walleye, catfish, and white bass, hunting, boating, camping, picnicking, swimming, and historical sites. Rocky Point is the newest park in the South Dakota state park system, and opened in 2006.

Rocky Point Recreation Area Open to the Public

Rocky Point is the newest park in the South Dakota state park system. Located on the 8,000-surface Belle Fourche Reservoir, the park will bring improved access and recreation to the area. This summer, it will feature 61 campsites, including 50 with electricity and three accessible sites, as well as accessible showers and restrooms, dump station, playground, picnic shelter, fish cleaning station and boat ramp.