Friends of Rapid City Parks’ annual Memory Walk to commemorate the city’s tragic 1972 flood will not take place this year because of city park measures to respond to COVID 19.
The annual event to remember the 238 citizens who lost their lives and to celebrates the legacy of the park system that grew in its wake, will instead be observed virtually.
The annual walk is made possible by Friends of Rapid City Parks members, and support from the Remembrance & Renewal Flood Anniversary Committee. The mission of Friends is to protect the land use policies that preserve the greenway, and remember those who lost their lives in the 1972 Black Hills Flood.