Stop on Needles Highway
Through Iron Creek Tunnel
Sylvan Lake, as you round the turn
A Horseshoe Turn, Needles RoadLease
We drive down through heavily wooded roads to the lake, the most widely advertised place in the Black Hills. Sylvan Lake is about a half mile in length, located right in the top of the mountains. It owes its size to the fact that its north end is made up of a dam filling the gorge through which the water tumbled in its course from its mountain streams, through Sunday Gulch to Spring Creek.
Sylvan Lake, and the Cliffs