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Map of Jewel Cave National Monument (NM) in South Dakota. The park is highlighted and outlined in green, and the surrounding terrain is tan speckled with green to represent forest cover. Black dashed lines represent trails, and white lines represent highways and roads.

Extended Description

The roughly square Jewel Cave NM is entirely surrounded by Black Hills National Forest. State Route 16 travels east from the left edge of the map until it reaches the western boundary of the monument. It curves north almost to the top left corner of the park and then continues east through the park and off the right edge of the map. Text along the left edge of the map reads, “To Newcastle, WY” and along the right edge, “To Custer, SD.”

Two roads curve south into the park from State Route 16. The shorter western leg reaches down into the Historic Area (open summer only), which has Historic Lantern Tours, information, parking, a picnic area, and restrooms. The path of the lantern tour is drawn in dark orange and passes a site with a Cabin.

The second park road, to the east, curves down to the Visitor Center, which is at an elevation of 5,412 feet (1,650 meters) and has information, parking, restrooms, wheelchair access, and assistive listening devices. In this area there are also a picnic area, Discovery Talks, a Scenic Tour outlined in dark pink, and Wild Caving Tour outlined in blue. Canyon Trails extends south along Lithograph Canyon and then ripples northwest through Hell Canyon to connect with the Historic Area. Just outside the northwestern corner of the park, parking is available on the Hell Canyon Trail.

Legend

In the lower left corner of the map, the legend begins with six symbols representing Information, Parking, Picnic area, Restrooms, Wheelchair-accessible, and Assistive listening devices. The legend continues as follows:

Pink line for the Scenic Tour,

Orange line for the Historic Lantern Tour,

Blue line for the Wild Caving Tour, and

Green texture for Forest cover.

A scale below measures distances of 0.5 kilometers and 0.5 miles.