Fig. 1Sandstone pillars in the grass at Medicine Rocks State Park
Landform
Honeycombed sandstone pillars rising from shortgrass — a stone grove the Lakota and Cheyenne used, not a Dakota park loop.
Field note
Wind cut rooms and windows through the pale stone. Ekalaka is the town. This plate is Medicine Rocks State Park, not Makoshika and not the Black Hills Needles.
Medicine Rocks is a grove of honeycombed sandstone in the grass near Ekalaka. Wind cut rooms and windows through the pale stone. This plate is the state park, not Makoshika and not the Black Hills Needles.
