at suitable points an overhead crossing or small bridge 
under which the animals may pass from one part of the 
Reserve to another. There is on the Wind Cave road, 
at the cave, a bridge of this kind, a second and third 
bridge half a mile and a mile south of the cave. 
ACCESSIBILITY 
The Reserve is accessible over nine miles of good 
road from Hot Springs. Several automobile lines run 
out from the Springs to Wind Cave, practically in the 
center of the Park, the entire distance being about 
twelve miles. 
The automobile fare is $2.50 a round trip for more 
than two persons, or $5 for a single person. Most of 
the sight-seers travel by automobile. 
Hot Springs is a summer and health resort for all 
classes of people, patronized mostly by tourists from 
Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas. 
The number of people who visited Wind Cave 
during the past four years, ending June 30, was, in 1908, 
3,171; 1909, 3,216; 1910, 3,387; and 1911, 3,951. 
GAME SUITABLE FOR RESERVE 
The park is suited for buffalo, elk, deer, antelope 
and mountain sheep, all of which in bygone years lived 
there. 
Buffalo passed through Buffalo Gap, and a few 
wintered in the Park. 
Elk were also abundant, as the shed antlers in the 
ranchmen’s yards testify. There are still a few deer— 
mule and white-tail—on the Reserve. The best locality 
for mountain sheep is the sandstone bluffs and cliffs 
extending intermittently the entire length of Cold Creek 
Canyon. They begin at a point where the Park line 
crosses Cold Creek on the south, and some of them rise 
250 feet. Sheep would range up the smaller canyons 
emptying into this canyon. 
There is scarcely enough underbrush along the 
streams in the open country to make the Reserve suitable 
for pheasants. 
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