Whether it's a narrow dirt road or a freeway, it all comes down to being able to maintain control and stop in time to handle anything unexpected. If a gravel road is in good condition and you have good visibility (e.g. no hidden driveways), I don't see anything wrong with doing 70 mph. Back on the straight, wide-open roads of eastern Colorado we did it all the time. Here in Michigan, with all the trees and hidden driveways, traveling that fast is dangerous even on a paved road. For most of the gravel roads around here, 35 to 50 mph is about it and many roads are unsafe even at 25 mph.
I don't know what the law is in SD, but in Michigan, local governments can't set a lower speed limit than that established by state law without doing a traffic study on the particular road. The state limits are based, in part, on the number of entrances per mile. If there are less than 30 entrances per half mile, the speed limit is 55 mph.
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