Custer, United States Travel Blogs

Black Hills of South Dakota
Aug 23, 2008 (12 photos)

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 vehicle ...

From Boot Hill Nebraska to Custer South Dakota
Aug 22, 2008 (15 photos)

... . 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 Good

Thursday 17 July
Jul 27, 2008 (8 photos)

Thursday 17th July   Today we drove straight to Mount Rushmore. The weather was not great but that didn't seem to stop people from pouring into this National Monument.   This place is awe-inspiring! For those people who don't know what I am ...

The Badlands
Sep 9, 2009 (13 photos)

There's a place out here near the Badlands named Wall Drugs. The place is in Wall, SD and is the Western equivalent of South of the Border ..... every few miles there's a silly billboard for hundreds of miles. Aside from those signs .... there is nothing ...

Day Four: reaching Custer
Jul 11, 2006 (9 photos)

... than their population. Anyway, we traveled for quite a while and when we got to the turn off for the highway leading to Custer and our automobile just didn't sound right. The ride was bumpy; it was like we were driving on grooved pavement. The car wasn ...

The most scenic of drives
Oct 6, 2009 (20 photos)

... of what's happening with the buffalo. If you should ever find yourself in this part of the country we would recommend both Custer State park and the Norbeck Byway.  Custer State Park has campgrounds, cabins and a lodge, all of which& ...

Crazy Horse Memorial
May 1, 2008 (10 photos)

Although the memorial isn't close to being finished, it is very impressive. Actually, the Presidents of Rushmore would all fit inside of the head of the Crazy Horse Memorial. It is massive. It's also all privately funded. They turned down 10 million ...

Last stop
Aug 29, 2007

Keesha and I spent one last weekend camping at a remote site in the Black Hills. The smooth folds of these ancient mountains soothed both of us as we prepared for re-entry.

Custer State Park
May 1, 2008 (8 photos)

... I'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 ...

Mt. Rushmore
May 1, 2008 (8 photos)

     This one I'm sure you all know about. I ended up doing this on my own since there is a little bit of an uphill walk to get to the viewing area. It was very impressive and the surrounding area is really beautiful. One thing ...

Crazy Horse
Aug 12, 2008 (4 photos)

We drove to Crazy Horse after Mount Rushmore. It was an insane $27 fee to get in but we paid it and parked. When we looked up at the carving all we saw was the face of Crazy Horse so we were a little confused. We wanted to get next to the carving like we ...

Custer was here!
Sep 21, 2008 (13 photos)

... backwards talking about how we love our rifles and shooting animals just in case they decided to move in our general direction... Custer State Park has 1,500 bisons roaming freely along the park so you can encounter them at any time, and the advice is ...

Elk Hunting and taking the Lover's Leap
Sep 22, 2008 (14 photos)

Now here is a comment that will gain us a few brownie points from animal lovers and make us loose a thousand from parents with children. If you are a parent with a young child please skip the next couple of paragraphs...:-) In our base camp we had two ...

Custer State Park and Devil's Tower
Sep 10, 2007 (6 photos)

More catch-up of Sept 8-9:  We camped 2 nights at Custer SP, a huge park with activities for everyone.  We spent Sat am riding Daisy and Cloudy through the French Creek Natural Area with Carleen from the U.P. as our guide. We avoided bison ...

The Ranch
Sep 5, 2005 (17 photos)

... big rocks. As I lay on the bed watching TV, he was out building a walkway. I did however regain some energy after a trip into Custer for some ice cream, which was just enough to get me up to play croquet. Where I had an amazing comeback to put me in ...

44th annual buffalo roundup
Sep 28, 2009 (10 photos)

We were up early today for the short drive from our campground out to Custer State Park.  We had arrived in Rapid City in time for the annual buffalo roundup and we were looking forward to taking this event off our 'list'.  We've included quite a ...

The Cave segment and Mt Rushmore
Sep 8, 2009 (6 photos)

Jewel Cave National Monument Wind Cave National Park Mount Rushmore National Monument

Nebraska and South Dakota
Aug 22, 2005 (12 photos)

... the Wild Horse Sanctuary and the Mammoth Site. If you head that way, see both. We camped for two nights in Custer State Park then and visited Mt.Rushmore, as well as some traditional Black Hills roadside attractions, such as Reptile Gardens and Wall ...

Great Faces, Great Places
Sep 19, 2008

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Highest Peak East of the Rockies
Sep 5, 2009 (1 photos)

... we had a plan to go climbing in the Needles and get to Harney Peak in one day I planed to go the 3 mile round trip to Custer city to check if they had a bookstore and if that bookstore would have a better climbing guide than the one we already had.  ...

Custer State Park
Jul 29, 2007 (10 photos)

... ;begge mænd i familien bliver tiltalt "Mister". Det bekommer os nu egentlig vældig fint . Vi boede i den lille hyggelige cowboy-by Custer lige uden for Custer State Park, hvor vi tilbragte 2 dage. Denne park er virkelig super med bjergtinder i ...

Climbing the Needles
Sep 7, 2009 (1 photos)

Hi, today we had a great time climbing at the Needles Eye area. We started up a bitt slow recovering from yesterday. Nicole is mastering her new crawling skill and eager to get the day started as always. So it was not possible to hold her back for to long ...

YABBADABBADO!
Jun 8, 2009 (10 photos)

... 8217;t judge a book by it’s cover! So, on Saturday afternoon, having just finished driving through the Frightening Forrest, we hit Custer, SD, the last city before "home" (the Palmer Gulch KOA in Hill City).  Custer is a really cute town, still ...

Travel Day to South Dakota
Aug 1, 2009

After a great day in Mesa Verde National Park, we traveled to South Dakota. On to Rushmore tomorrow.

Day 40 - Jewel Cave/Mt. Rushmore
Aug 5, 2005

Day 40 Today brought the anticipation of spelunking (cave exploring), state border crossing, and the crossing of yet another state border. We woke relatively late, at 7:30, and prepared for our appointments at Jewel Cave. We went to the Visitor ...

Custer SD
Aug 29, 2006 (12 photos)

... campground I notice a bank temperature said it was 99 degrees out and it felt like it. The next day (Friday) I head off to Custer South Dakota and to see Mt. Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial. On the way i stopped in Wall South Dakota to have lunch ...

Them thar hills
Jul 24, 2009 (27 photos)

Busy busy busy, Western South Dakota is such a busy little place with so many things to see and do. We've had a fabulous time trying to fit it all in. The adventure began (and possibly our favorite part) at the Mammoth Monument in Hot Springs. This ...

Day 7 - Custer WY to Rapid City, SD
Jul 16, 2009 (1 photos)

Well, the electrical storm even scared Bob last night !! All I could think about was the fact that the manual of the motor home said that when parking at night make sure you are not near a waterway that could flash flood ! Not to mention with the jacks ...

Custer State Park
Oct 4, 2008 (3 photos)

Had to take an alternate path due to road closures. It worked out for the better - got to see some better scenery (I Think). On this path through another state park, lots of lakes and deer.

Custer State Park
Aug 2, 2002

Custer State Park