Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Road

We got a fairly early start and did a tour in the Black Hills and Custer State Park.  We went over the Iron Mountain Road and through the Needles.  This trip twice has been named one of the top ten driven in the US by USA Today newspaper.  It is a beautiful trip no mater how many times you go.  We came back via Hill City and stopped for a great lunch at Alpine Inn.  We had sandwiches made of ham, turkey, bacon and advato on honey nut wheat bread.  We got home about 1PM just as it was getting to be very hot.  We were in the upper 90's today, low humidity.