Flooding Continues To Affect State Parks

Spring flooding has made life difficult for some South Dakota State Parks…..

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State Parks Director Doug Hofer says they’ve also got issues at Fisher Grove State Park east of Redfield, where the James River has been running high….

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 Hofer says high gas prices this Summer could actually help South Dakota State Parks because it could keep people closer to home.  He says every South Dakotan lives within 60 miles of a state park.

(courtesy KWAT Watertown)