Salt Creek Overlook
Salt Creek Overlook is a picturesque acreage with multiple build sites on the western side of the Black Hills. It contains 39.55 acres located northeast of Newcastle, Wyoming in a private wooded setting. The property has been surveyed. The land offers a striking landscape with timbered hills, meadows areas and interesting rock outcroppings. Several pristine hilltop building sites have amazing unobstructed views across the Salt Creek Valley.LandExcellent recreational setting in the Wyoming Black Hills between Newcastle, Wyoming and Deadwood, South Dakota. Electricity has been run to the property. Direct access from Highway 85.
RecreationThis western Black Hills location is a recreational haven. The area is home to elk, deer, turkey, and a variety of other game. There are opportunities for fishing, hiking, camping, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, riding ATVs, and horseback riding. Recr...
RecreationThis western Black Hills location is a recreational haven. The area is home to elk, deer, turkey, and a variety of other game. There are opportunities for fishing, hiking, camping, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, riding ATVs, and horseback riding. Recreational destinations in the region include the Black Hills National Forest, Historic Deadwood, Devils Tower, Mount Rushmore, Deerfield Lake, and many others. A great location within commuting distance to several towns: 9-mile drive to Newcastle, 37 miles to Sundance and 46 miles to Deadwood, SD.
Region & ClimateThis area offers a moderate summer climate with low humidity and averages high temperatures peaking in the mid 80’s.
HistoryWeston County is located in the northeast corner of Wyoming, just south of Crook County and with its eastern border the South Dakota state line. The earliest inhabitants of the area were American Indians: the Black Hills feature prominently in folklore and stories of the Kiowa, Crow, Cheyenne and Lakota tribes, the last of whom were pushing the Crow further west by the early 1800s.
The first whites in the area may have been Louis and Francois de la Verendrye, Canadian French fur traders who in 1742 and 1743 explored west from the Big Bend of the Missouri River at least as far as the Black Hills. The land came under nominal United States control in 1803, when representatives of President Thomas Jefferson negotiated purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France. Indians still controlled it, however, and continued to do so for three-fourths of a century.
In June 1834, Congress designated all non-state or non-territory land west and east of the Mississippi River as Indian Country. What’s now Weston County officially became part of the new Nebraska Territory in May 1854. Later it was part of Dakota Territory, then, briefly Idaho Territory, then Dakota Territory again and finally, on July 25, 1868, was included as part of the brand-new Territory of Wyoming. Of Wyoming’s 23 counties, Weston County ranks 18th in size at about 2,400 square miles, and 20th in population as of the 2010 census count of 7,208. It includes two towns, Upton and the county seat of Newcastle as well as the unincorporated communities of Hill View Heights, Osage and Four Corners.
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