After a quickie visit to the Box Butte County highpoint, I drove north into Dawes County via NE-71 and NE-2, passing by the tiny community of Marsland. Shortly after passing the county line I got onto some dirt roads heading west and north via River Road and Diehl Road to West Belmont Road. At the Dawes - Sioux County line I went north on an unnamed road into a pleasurable little set of hills with stands of pine. The highpoint is a mile up this road, where the road tops out near an official-looking antenna complex. I walked east past a fence and jogged up a small hill to the top where a telephone pole sat dead center on the top. Although there are five candidate areas, this area is undoubtedly the highest. A small cairn was also at the highpoint.

I kept my visit short. It was blowing pretty hard and getting cold, and I was in shorts and sandals. I jogged back to my vehicle and got going, heading north into South Dakota where I visited one more highpoint in Shannon County before getting a hotel for the night in Hot Springs.