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For a small town, Spearfish has a lot of excellent food options:

The Green Bean Coffee House and Eatery: 304 Main St. Good snacky food and a nice, peaceful indoor/outdoor environment. Has wifi.

Common Grounds Coffee House: 111 E. Hudson. Very good food too; great smoked-salmon salad, etc. I go here often. Has wifi.

Blackbird Espresso,  503 N. Main St,  great coffee, pastries, etc.

Antunez Restaurant: Latin American-Mexican-Spanish place with really great selections (not typical US Mex food), awesome guacamole, etc., 117 E Illinois. It’s small and tables sometimes fill up fast.

Killian’s Tavern: 539 W. Jackson Blvd. Popular place; comfort food but also some
unusual menu items, good beer selection. Has wifi.

Dough Trader Pizza Company: On Jackson, right behind Killian’s.really excellent thin-crust pizzas; also good salads. They don’t take credit cards but ATM nearby.

Leones’ Creamery: in the old city hall building on Main St. Outstanding ice cream including some unusual flavors.

Barbacoa:  305 W. Jackson. burritos, etc., in the style of Chipotle, but with more original home-made ingredients. Has wifi.

Fuji San: 126 W. Hudson. A new Japanese restaurant, Lots of sushi options. And bubble tea. Replacing the much-beloved Bay Leaf Café. I haven’t tried it yet.

Wine Bar: corner of Hudson and Main.

Crow Peak Brewing Company: good brew pub at the north end of town, just off I-90 on Hwy 14. Great sunset views from the upstairs balcony.

Safeway Grocery Store: 1606 N. Ave; (on the main drag; north end of town) has a deli and Starbucks inside. Several fast-food joints nearby.

You can find a much more complete, and probably up-to- date listing of restaurants, night life, things to do, local events, etc., at www.visitspearfish.com.

Spearfish Farmer’s Market, Summer market May through October. There’s also a winter market. But locations etc., seem to change from year to year. Check visit spearfish link below.

Entertainment:

Spearfish maintains an online calendar of events; lots of other local info also: www.visitspearfish.com/calendarofevents/

The Matthews Opera House: Beautifully restored theater (built in 1906 by a Wyoming rancher for touring burlesque shows) stages summer performances; other events including art exhibits and Bellman Brown Bags. On Main St. The opera house, on the second floor of a classic sandstone building on Main St., stages summer performances and other events including art exhibits and Bellman Brown Bags. In summer, try to catch “The Phantom of Matthews Opera House” (written by a past student of mine), especially if you have kids. www.matthewsopera.com/

Friday nights on Main Street: Spearfish closes off three blocks of Main Street beginning late afternoon on Fridays in June – July - August (weather permitting). Live music, dancing, food, drink and beer stalls; picnic tables; many Main St. shops, including large antiques mall, are open. All ages. Lots of fun.

Spearfish boasts one of the nation’s great small-town park systems.  The main park is a few blocks off to the west of Main Street at the south end of town, adjacent to a beautiful campground and the DC Booth fish hatchery. This park has a large playground for kids, swings, tennis courts, picnic tables, covered picnic shelters, sand volleyball courts, a band shell and a beautiful, ½-mile stretch of Spearfish Creek. Also Wednesday-night concerts and outdoor movie nights. Spearfish has a network of other great parks (17 in all) along the creek. A paved pedestrian and bike path winds for 7.5 miles along the creek through the city’s parks where you will find lots of other recreational facilities. The bike path runs all the way from the north end of town to a parking lot near the beginning of Spearfish Canyon. 

High Plains Western Heritage Center: Extensive and beautiful displays of old West memorabilia, including blacksmith forge, old sheepherder’s wagon, gun displays, homesteaders’ equipment, etc. Interested browsers could spend hours here and not see it all. Usually has a few resident longhorn cattle outside in a pasture. I often get bored in museums, but not this one. www.westernheritagecenter.com/

The DC Booth Fish Hatchery, at the south end of Spearfish’s beautiful city park, has several ponds full of trout (you can feed them) and an underwater viewing room. Also a nice museum and a handsomely restored railroad car that once transported fingerlings with which they stocked lakes and rivers all over the USA.  www.dcboothfishhatchery.org/

Festival in the Park: Annual Arts and Crafts Fair, mid-July.

Grace Ballock Memorial Library: 625 N. 5th St.

Termesphere Gallery – Dick Termes, a hometown boy whose unusual spherical art is internationally famous, has a fascinating gallery halfway to town on Christensen Drive. Dick uses a 6-point perspective technique to paint landscapes on a spherical surface (the spheres are suspended and rotate slowly via a silent electric rotor). The gallery, housed in a complex of Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic domes, is open 9-5 every day in summer and on weekends or by appointment in winter. You will see many Termespheres in various locations around town. www.termespheres.com/

Art galleries: several, including a nice one on Main St. under the Opera House.

Antique shopping: especially on Main St.

Northern Hills Cinema: North end of town (1830 N. Main St.)

Spearfish Rec and Aquatic Center: lots of indoor recreation facilities including track and gym, pool, plus a 2-acre outdoor water park. North end of town; 122 Recreation Drive, 605 722-1430.