This section includes many amazing sites including Devils Tower, Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, plus traversing the hilly Black Hills. The Needles Alternate is a spectacular mountain highway, and consists of stiff climbs and descents, narrow tunnels, highway loops and a potential conga-line of cars creeping along to take in the amazing views. The Sage Creek Alternate offers a remote backdoor to Badlands National Park along unpaved Sage Creek Rd. Midland, South Dakota, is in an area of mixed-grass prairie.