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Big Sioux Scenes
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Below are scenes on the Big Sioux River.

Lake Alvin Sunset Oct 2005
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Lake Alvin, Nine Mile Creek, and the Big Sioux
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Big Sioux at Oak Ridge GPA south of Fairview, SD

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Big Sioux River valley looking east from Fairview area

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Spring at the historic wagon crossing between S.D. and Iowa on the Big Sioux

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1 Big Sioux River Panographic

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Campfire Point is at Leif Ericson Camp along the Big Sioux

For a tour of Leif Ericson Camp, click here: http://www.leifericson.org

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A Pond in one of the many tributaries of the Big Sioux

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3 Summer Sky along the Big Sioux

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4 Fall Tree Canopy (the river is 30 feet to the left of the edge of the photo)

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5 Fall Gold - looking Southeast

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Towering color above the Big Sioux

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7 Spring Sky The River is behind the trees in the background looking northeast

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8 Gitchi Manitou State Preserve, along the Big Sioux on the Iowa/S.D. border.

The Big Sioux River borders Iowa and South Dakota. Gitchi Manitou State Preserve is on the river 10 miles east of Sioux Falls. Just south of Gitchi Manitou is the ancient Blood Run National Historic Landmark.

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9 Fall Sun This unbelievable reflection of the sun show the beauty of fall along the Big Sioux

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10 Fall 2003 colors

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A stream runs into the Big Sioux east of Sioux Falls in Oct.'03