Custer
Travel Blogs from Custer, United States
Thursday 17 July
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 ...
Black Hills of South Dakota
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 ...
From Boot Hill Nebraska to Custer South Dakota
... did see I liked though can't wait to see more of it. Well we headed off for South Dakota and found our way to Custer. You guessed it I saw my real live wondering in the road buffalo. Also say some Prairie dogs and deer. Tomorrow is going to ...
Day 4 - Presidents, Harleys, Dead Cowboys & B1's
... nationwide causing the last big gold rush in the US. Custer is lovely, with granite outcroppings surrounded by ponderosa forest. From Custer we passed the Crazy Horse memorial. This will be the world’s largest mountain carving, at 641 feet long, ...
One last Drive through Custer State Park
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. ...
Black Hills country
... . Some formations are downright spires sticking straight up above the treeline as if vying for more attention. We made our home in Custer. It is a cute little town that found is fame back in day by accomodating the rush of gold miners to the area. Now, it ...
Custer State Park
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 ...
Ride of a lifetime
... 12 for the arm, just a massive undertaking. We're glad to have seen this, it's incredible. Getting a little dark now, headed to Custer City, another small town with main street blocked off, topped of the fuel and headed down the road. "Hey, you ...
The Badlands
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
... 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 ...
Crazy Horse Memorial
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 ...
Custer is so COOL
Well, we saw a lot of cool things at Custer today...we saw deer in various forms to start..and then we saw a herd of buffalo and they came very close to us! They are amazing animals; we might have even seen one of the one-ton buffalos when we were ...
Last stop
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 ...
Custer State Park
... 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 ...
Mt. Rushmore
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 ...
Horseback riding in Custer State Park
Lindsey really wanted to horseback ride so we went at Custer State Park for an hour ride. We had a great time - I was on Ranger, Lindsey on Sweet Pea and Mike on Ghost. All the horses behaved well :) up and down the hilly and ...
Crazy Horse
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 NATIONAL PARK
... it is NOT encouraged to interact with any animals. They are all wild animals who live on the thousands of acres that make up Custer National Park. As you will see in the pix....many a fool hearty folk get up close and personal to even huge and ...
Crazy Horse
Holding pictures again. Wish we could write (and have internet to upload) as fast as we take pictures. ...
Custer State Park and Devil's Tower
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 ...
Custer was here!
... Luckily that saved us a very embarrasing appearance in Michigan, and 300 miles extra!! Anyway, after a delightful scenic drive along Custer State Park and into Black Hills National Park we arrived at the Mount Rushmore National Monument. To be sincere ...
Birch Bay to Seattle
On our way out of the country, we stopped in Vancouver to have lunch with my Aunt Doris and pick up some (French) books at Kidsbooks on Broadway. I also wanted to pick up a French/English dictionary and a French dictionary that would be a bit more ...
Elk Hunting and taking the Lover's Leap
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 ...
The Cave segment and Mt Rushmore
Jewel Cave National Monument Wind Cave National Park Mount Rushmore National ...
Bisons on the way
... State Park in the Black Hills. A lot of Bisons here. Nach der Abkürzung über eine unbefestigte Straße, haben wir den Custer STate Park in den Black Hills erreicht. Hier gibt es viele wild lebenede Bisons. Soweit so gut. Mir gefallen die auf dem ...
CRAZY HORSE
... Cultural Center. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain on land considered sacred by some Native Americans, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles away from Mount Rushmore. The sculpture's final dimensions are planned to be 641 ...
The Ranch
... 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 ...
Another swing into Custer for Needle Highway
This completes our loops inside Custer State Park. We ended up loving this park because of the wildlife. With two cameras and two shooters we got tons of pictures. Below are a small batch of them to review. Once again the 70-200 ...
A 4th of July in Custer, S.D.
... 9:30p.m. but the web-site said 8:30 so we went early. The fireworks display is held on Pageant Hill, a hill behind the town of Custer. The hill has a grassy bottom with the ¼ top of trees. The fireworks are on the east side of the clearing, set off near ...
Nebraska and South Dakota
... visited 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 ...
