Custer State Park

If you remember a few posts ago, I was very (very!) disappointed with Cheyenne. Well, you'll be pleased to hear that I've found it ... up in South Dakota. The town of Custer - surrounded by (all sing) the Black Hills, the Black Hills of (South) Dakota is exactly how I thought Cheyenne would be. One main road with a mixture of wooden and brick …

We arrived in Custer, South Dakota at night and while it was raining. We ended up setting our tent up while it was raining which was an experience that we now look back and laugh about it. Black Hills Forrest was beautiful. I loved all the places we visited because they had to do in some way with architecture …

Mount Rushmore was pretty cool to visit. The size of the Memorial is bigger than expected. Custer State Park gave us our first taste of wildlife. The bison crossed the road right in front of our car …

Brrr... we woke up to temps in the lower 40's this morning with a heavy, dark cloud cover. Not looking good. But at least it wasn't raining... yet, anyways. At 7:30am, we (as a whole group now) headed down the road about a mile to the Pub & Grub restaurant for breakfast and to get warmed up for the day. The food here was great, for the price of …

Sorry this blog is late, we have had no internet service since we left Laurel, Mt. So we finished up our travels at the KOA outside Hill City, this is the 2nd biggest KOA in the US.....the 1st is at Lake Okachobee, Fl. Hill City had 650 sites and Fl. has over 1000 sites. This KOA had everything from swimming in 2 swimming pools to all you can eat …

We really wanted to see buffalo (scientific name is bison, but either one works). Custer State Park has about 1500 of these animals. Just a century ago buffalo was almost hunted to extinction. Were there only 1000 buffalo left in North America. Now there are about 200,000 buffalo, living in National Parks and private lands.

At first glance …

Die letzte Nacht ist echt schön. Wir können super schlafen und den fehlenden Schlaf der letzten Nacht nachholen…..und verschlafen prompt….. Ich gebe den anderen Bescheid, wir müssen also nicht so hetzen. Als erstes fahren wir zum Mount Rushmore. Hier müssen wir sage und schreibe 11$ Parkgebühr bezahlen. Wir …

Heute Nacht geht wieder die Heizung im WoMo an, aber morgens ist es schnell warm.
Wir fahren zum Custer State Park, genauer zum Sylvan Lake, parken unsere WoMo’s und machen uns fertig zum Wandern. Unser Ziel ist Harney’s Peak. 3,5 Meilen one Way.
Wir machen uns an den Aufstieg. Oben angekommen haben wir einen wirklich phä …

Happy 4th of July! We started out our day taking in a patriotic parade in downtown Custer, then spent the day driving through Custer State Park and the Black Hills National Forest.

Custer is such a beautiful park with lots of wildlife. We came across a huge herd of buffalo and just parked along the road for a while to take pictures. …

This is our second night at Cluster S.D.  We spent the day going through Custer State Park.  Only saw a couple of buffalo was very disappointed .  We did see antelopes, burros yes the donkey kind they would walk right up to your ...

... distance. The whole time we saw four bison, which was a little odd becuz the books talk about a herd of 800. On to the Custer State Park and our campsiteo at the Blue Bell campsite. We're in the Black hills now and our campsite is about 4800 feet up. It ...

... . You guessed it I saw my real live wondering in the road buffalo.  Also say some Prairie dogs and deer. Tomorrow is going to be a fun day we are going to Mt, Rushmore and to Custer State Park hope to see more wildlife. Bill and Eva Life is ...

We started the day driving the Needles Highway which is a scenic two lane (barely) highway that takes you up and around the rock spires in the Black Hills. It's not really a highway because you can only drive about 30 mph. Dad said the driving was white ...

... , that continued for another 20 miles or so. The smell of pine was incredible, and a complete contrast to the plains and prairies. Custer State Park is somewhere we’d like to go back to; I wonder if we ever will? It’s one of the last truly ...

We really loved Custer State Park and had to take one more drive through it today to see what animals we could see.  We did some some Buffalo, Pronghorns, Prairie dogs, deer and burros. ...

... de souvenir. Au coin des rues, il y a des reproductions de bison tout décoré, c'est vraiment beau. Ensuite direction Custer State park. Un petit parc avec des animaux sauvages. Bon disons qu'il faut préciser qu'ils sont habitués (Les animaux) ...

Custer State Park was a lot of fun.  We took the Wildlife Loop and managed to see alot of Buffalo, Donkeys,  goats, deer and coyotes.  The Buffalo like to cross the road in front of cars and it is just amazing how large some of those ...

... and overlooks everywhere. This was the original planned site for Rushmore, but the Needles, but the mountains were too soft. Entered Custer State Park in search of the elusive buffalo (more on that later), found nothing but ass, lots of ass, the animal ...

... ll just keep the same map pin.      The first stop actually was just a drive through but it was great. Custer State Park was very nice. After driving through the plains for the last couple of days it was nice to see a change in the ...