Custer State Park sd

Put 150 miles on the car today.  It was rainy & 58 degrees. Drove thru the Black Hills, Custer State Park & Mt. Rushmore.  A lot of cloud cover, but very cool.  Drove the car thru a rock formation called "The Needles ...

... We had talked to some folks in the KOA at Red Lodge who were from the Black Hills area. They suggested camping in the Custer State Park, up at Sylvan Lake. So we headed for the lake. But not before witnessing one thing that the Black Hills area is known ...

... 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 ...

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 10:00am- Beaver lake, Custer, SD On the way into town, I had seen a few billboards for Custer State Park. I thought that might be a nice place to go and see a few buffalo. Little did I know we'd be spending three days in ...

What a nice day. We went for a ride in Custer State Park. We saw Prarie dogs, White Tail and Mule Deer and manye herds of Bisons, all up real close. One herd we had to wait for to cross the road. Then we drove along a crazy highway called Needles highway, ...

... it was strenuous.   Our calf muscles have been hurting since then! After we left Mt. Rushmore we drove through Custer State Park.  Custer SP has 71,000 acres full of wildlife and spectacular scenery.  Part of the drive was on a road ...

July 4th we spent in Custer State Park. We took the Iron Mt Road into the park, which didn't offer many scenic views, but it still had some interesting road work: tunnels that framed Mt Rushmore, pigtail bridges, and divided two lane roads.   We ...

... , South Dakota The day started with a drive out of the Black Hills and into the Badlands. Before we got out of Custer State Park we did see a small herd of bison - but here they call them buffalo, after the Teton Park literature cautioned us that ...

... into town last night and saw it all lit up.  Tonight at 9 p.m. there is a lighting ceremony that we plan to attend.  Today we are going to check out Custer State Park...weather is beautiful.  I will try to post some more pics later ...

... so much better at our wedding than theirs. Phil always knows how to snap me back into reality. 3:00pm- Sylvan Lake, Custer State Park, SD We check into the hotel, unpack, and relax a bit. 5:00pm- We decide to try Frontier Village again. ...

Monday, July 21st, 2008 10:00am- Sylvan Lodge, Custer State Park, SD Our day begins with packing up the car and getting into our cowboy gear. We have a two-hour horseback trail ride ahead of us! It was a long drive down the mountains, so at ...

... , so it was pretty cool to see it happen. I finally left my parents on Tuesday 8/22 and spent the night in Ludington at a state park which my family camped at several times when I was younger. The next morning i got up and took a ferry boat across ...