Fishing near Rapid City, SD

Set in Pennington County at the eastern edge of the Black Hills, Rapid City sits within reach of the Black Hills National Forest and its 11 reservoirs and 1,300 miles of streams. Rapid Creek runs straight through downtown as a year-round urban trout tailwater, while Pactola Reservoir—the largest and deepest lake in the Hills at 825 acres—anchors the bigger-water scene roughly 18 miles west.