Description
Located in the Black Hills and Black Hills National Forest/Black Elk Wilderness; highest summit in South Dakota and highest elevation east of the Rocky Mountains.
History
Named Harney Peak in the late 1850s by Lieutenant G K Warren in honor of General William S Harney, commander of the military in the Black Hills area in the late 1870s. Renamed in 2016 by the BGN in honor of Black Elk (1863-1950), medicine man and holy man of the Oglala Lakota Sioux.