South Dakota trails · Snow-2
Snow-2
A 26.5-mile point-to-point in South Dakota, with 1,206 ft of climbing. Reaches Crooks Lake. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
Elevation profile
The climbing is spread fairly evenly along the route. It gives back about 2,024 ft along the way, so it rolls rather than climbing steadily.
3-D terrain
USGS 3DEP ELEVATION × ESRI WORLD IMAGERY · VERTICAL ×1.5
Reaches
- Crooks Lake (lake)
Getting there
SNOW-9 access. 44.01142, -103.83986 · directions
Daylight at the trailhead
On August 31, 2026 — the day this page was generated — first light reaches this trailhead at 5:47 a.m., the sun rises at 6:17 a.m. and sets at 7:33 p.m., and the last usable light fades about 8:03 p.m. (MDT) — 13 h 16 min of daylight. At about 2.7 mph plus 30 minutes per 1,000 feet of climbing, the 26.5-mile route takes roughly 10 h 25 min, so leaving the trailhead at sunrise puts you back around 4:42 p.m. — 2 h 51 min before sunset.
Loop options
- DITCH CREEK 07 + SNOW-2 + DITCH CREEK 10 — 4.2 mi loop, 708 ft gain
- SNOW-2 + DITCH CREEK 01 — 2.1 mi loop, 345 ft gain
Nearby trails
- Deerfield Lake Loop — 2.3 mi
- Ditch Creek 58 — 4.3 mi
- Deerfield — 4.4 mi
- Boggy — 6.8 mi