That would be Right of way. Not right away.

But either way.

Technically you need a public access into or onto the other public owned checkerboard property.
I would think a case could be made for using a fence ladder that dosent touch top.

Jeez Bernie, I heard Paul Bunyan was born in your hometown too!



Chris

Lol, ya right, more stories

You’re right 330, part of the problem is here we say it as one word, rightaway, and spell check put a space in, but then also when writing I forget that the word “of” is in it.

Thank you guys for all the replies. The ladder idea made me laugh, it is roughly a 4 mile walk just to get to that point and another 4 mile walk after. If I someone cannot cross this corner legally I believe thousands of acres are basically off limits unless you get permission from land owners. I will probably call the Game department and see if they will give me their opinion on the matter.

Heck 4 miles is nothing where I live

I could use the horses to access and have the pack horse carry the ladder, just not sure how I could teach them to climb it once we got to the corner.

Who is gonna write a horse a ticket for trespassing? Not like they can read the map or signs.

guarantee you will get a different answer from every warden you ask. just find out who owns it and ask . maybe 4 different owners but could be an in to more land. never know till you visit with the guys

What about tunneling under?

I would like everyone who says it is illegal to offer some proof. I have a friend who claimed he did it in Colorado legally and another in SD that does it regularly.

Copter or a ladder- Im tellin'ya!

Assuming there is a fence attached to said corner post, unless you jump to the top you would be climbing up the wire. I try to not be a richard, but people climbing up my fences get to me. Dad used to let anyone that wanted to, hunt or fish on this farm. They would climb over or through the fences instead of walking from the lanes. Fence staples get pulled from wood post, the clips bent off of steal posts, and wires get loosened from the climbers. Others would wrap two wires together to make it easy to go through the fence. All of these things need repaired to keep livestock from going through. This has led to hard feelings and loss of access over the years and not just on my farm. Some folks do it right, but other slobs ruin it for everyone else. Yes sir if you ask permission and act accordingly you or anyone else would be welcome. If I was to catch you climbing the fence, I would be giving a chewing. So please look at it from everyone's perspective. Of course if you did jump up on top of the post to cross, I would probably tell ya to just open the gate and walk around. Make sure and close the dang gate though.

As for the OP it is trespassing in KS not sure about SD. Just ask one of the other land owners, if they are like folks around here you will probably get access to cross and maybe even hunt that property to.

If the west boundary of the south property, and the east boundary of the north property are on a section line then it wouldnt be a problem. There is a public access right of way on every section line that is 30-60 foot wide. You could walk north until you can step into the property on the left. I know that was confusing, but Im saying to use the section line to your advantage. As soon as you step off the section line then you are trespassing if you step off in the wrong direction

So, is it legal to destroy the Government corner survey marker by placing a corner post where it is/was?

Here is a zoomed out version, I have no idea if it is on a section line, I am also assuming the 2018 walk in land needed to access this remain walk in in 2019, to that we shall see.

if your interested call the dnr yourself

What county; Harding, Butte, Perkins, or Meade...?

If you're 4 miles in, someone would have to see you cross a 6-foot corner, I wonder what a jury trial would say to such a brazen trespass...? I'd make sure it got on the leading state media tv channels and newspapers. Bad press for out-of-state hunting if people are being fined for crossing 6 feet of someone's land. Jeez, offer the guy a 1.75 of Windsor whiskey and you'll probably get the gate on the private land opened for you. At least, the often worked n the old days.

The issue I have with your map is that the yellow land with the black cross-hatching is BLM. We don't have a lot of BLM land compared to many western states but it tends to be concentrated in the nw part of South Dakota. BLM up there is notoriously under marked. There's a chunk up in Butte Co. that is 7 miles long but is only about 1 1/2 miles wide att he greatest distance and most of it is narrower than that. The only signage on it as far as I know is a couple of small markers on the gravel road that bisects on the north side. How many gov-owned parcels do you think you cross fence lines to get down the end of it 7 miles away...? I've been tempted to try it antelope hunting but didn't want to face the possibly that I wnt astray from the map. I suppose now, with smart phones and the hunting atlas being digital, a guy could track himself in real-time and and make sure he was still on the bubble-bee colored land.

I would just call the co in that county and tell him the location and see what he says. They should be slower now (except for spring turkey) then in the fall. Or call the state BLM office and ask them what their rules are for kitty-corner adjoining parcels. The whole idea that a guy can't cross at corners is silly. Must have been slow days for a number of lawyers or landowners to get that question to bubble to the surface. My grandfather, who never thought twice about someone crossing his pasture to reach the local fishing pond built by the WPA in 1930s, would be rolling in his grave at such pettiness in denying access. Just a potential p**sing contest for someone to show the world he still matters somewhere.

Good luck in finding out the reality...

I'm with you. I built about a mile of new fence every year and maintain about 40 miles of existing fence so I'm I understand about fence and and property rights.

I always hunt Harding and Butte, love that area.

I dont like to hand out booze just because I had some family members who had drinking trouble and even someone who quit could have a rough go of it if they were handed a bottle while home alone. I like to go to Walmart and buy big bags of mixed chocolates and give those out to land owners.

I will agree the BLM and much of the state land is totally unmarked and nearly impossible to navigate. I personally use a GPS with a landowner chip and it is fantastic, I would highly recommend looking into ONx for either a GPS or a smart phone, it makes for a much more enjoyable hunt when you are 100% certain you are on the correct property 100% of the time.