page_title: South Dakota Highway 87
section_title: Needles Highway
hierarchical_section_title: South Dakota Highway 87 / Route description / Needles Highway
caption_attribution_description: English: Overlook on South Dakota Highway 87, or Needles Highway. NOTE: This image is a panorama consisting of multiple frames that were merged in software. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and color and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different than reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions. Boarisch&#160;| Български&#160;| Dansk&#160;| Deutsch&#160;| Zazaki&#160;| Ελληνικά&#160;| English&#160;| Esperanto&#160;| Español&#160;| Eesti&#160;| Suomi&#160;| Français&#160;| Magyar&#160;| Italiano&#160;| 日本語&#160;| Македонски&#160;| മലയാളം&#160;| Nederlands&#160;| Polski&#160;| Português&#160;| Русский&#160;| Slovenščina&#160;| Svenska&#160;| Türkçe&#160;| 中文&#160;| Українська&#160;| +/−
context_page_description: South Dakota Highway 87 is a 37.894-mile-long state highway in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It travels through the Black Hills region. The highway's southern terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Route 385, about 6 miles southeast of Pringle, within the southwestern part of Wind Cave National Park. Its northern terminus is at an intersection with US 16/US 385 about 3 miles south-southwest of Hill City, within the east-central part of the Black Hills National Forest.
  The highway travels through Wind Cave National Park and Custer State Park. The northern 14 miles of the highway is also known as the Needles Highway. The Needles Highway, along with the concurrency with US 16A, are also part of the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway. Portions of the highway are also a section of Custer State Park's Wildlife Loop.
context_section_description: After splitting from US 16A, the route is known as the Needles Highway. This segment is 14 miles (23 km) long. Finished in 1922, the highway is named after the high granite "needles" it winds among. Access to the Needles Highway requires a Custer State Park entrance license, making that portion of SD 87 a toll road. Along this stretch lies the Black Hills Playhouse. The highway passes through two tunnels blasted through sheer granite walls—Iron Creek Tunnel and Needles Eye Tunnel. The vehicles that do travel this road are almost exclusively sightseers.
  Just after Needles Eye Tunnel, Highway 87 serves as the northern terminus of SD 89. After this junction, SD 87 has one more tunnel, Hood Tunnel. It then provides access to the Sylvan Lake Resort. The route finally ends at US 16/385 south of Hill City.
caption: An overlook on Needles highway
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