small industrial city, Black Hills nearby
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11/21/2020
We visited RC June 2020 for a week for a possible move, have never lived there before, so don't have a comparison to previous times. We found plenty of restaurants (for us) , mostly chain, and downtown more locally owned, but expensive for great food. We would move to the Black Hills outside of RC, prices are not cheap, but less expensive than in CO where we currently live. The town overall is ok, quite a bit of industry scattered around, which is sort of an 'eye sore', but none spitting out tons of pollution nor oil rigs drilling nearby. Parts of the city are very hilly, other parts are flat, the more east part is flatter. We liked the Canyon Lake Park area around Chapel Hill. and Robbinsville Park in the south. They were expanding Omaha St in downtown so, major construction going on, so was chaotic and noisy. It will be better when that is done. We loved the neighborhoods in the foothills outside of RC, you just have to be able to afford them. We did notice a mall , Mt Rushmore Mall, (looked dead) but did not go inside, as we are not mall people. I think shopping centers are more the thing now. There is a Performing Arts Center and a Civic Center, but now closed for 'covid'. There are a couple of yoga studios and a nice size YMCA if those are your interests. We spent a day in Spearfish which has more restaurants, locally owned and great food, beautiful town. From what I've read Spearfish gets much more snow than RC, with Spearfish being on the northern edge of the Black Hills, it gets the full brunt of western and Canadian cold fronts.. We would be living there mainly for the Black Hills, low humidity, and conservative political climate. We are retired, so no need to find a good paying job.
Carolyn | Aurora, CO