Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota Weather
Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Colonial Pine Hills, Pennington County.
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About Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota
Colonial Pine Hills unfolds across a landscape where the Black Hills begin their gentle, rolling descent towards the prairie. It lies 6.5 miles south-west of Rapid City, SD (from Rapid City, SD: bearing 220°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west-south-west of Rapid Valley. Here, ponderosa pines, their bark smelling faintly of vanilla in the sun, stand sentinel over a terrain of undulating hills and shallow draws, a place where the sky feels vast and the wind carries the scent of dry grasses and distant rain. The land itself seems to breathe with a quiet resilience, the soil a rich ochre that stains the boots of those who walk its trails. Sunlight, when it slants through the trees in the late afternoon, paints the underbrush in hues of gold and russet, lending an almost ethereal quality to the persistent green of the pines. The story of Colonial Pine Hills is one of resilience and adaptation, a place that has seen prospectors dream of gold and ranchers carve out livelihoods from the land. Though not as boisterous as some of its mining neighbors, Colonial Pine Hills has always been a place of quiet industry, its economy historically tied to the surrounding agricultural lands and the timber that graces its hillsides. Local businesses, many carrying the legacy of generations, hum with a steady, unhurried purpose, their doors opening to a community that values neighborly connection and the enduring spirit of the West. It’s a place where the past is not forgotten, but woven into the everyday rhythm of life, a subtle reminder of the journeys that brought people to this particular corner of South Dakota.
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| Location | Colonial Pine Hills, Pennington County, South Dakota |
| Coordinates | 44.007766°N, 103.315462°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 57702 |
| Area Code | 605 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Colonial Pine Hills includes coordinates 44.007766°N, 103.315462°W, situated in Pennington County. ZIP code 57702. Telephone area code: 605. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
