Custer State Park Holidays
At 71,000 acres Custer State Park is the second largest State Park in the USA. With easy access to Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Keystone, this is the area you’d want to stay in to get back to nature. It boasts fabulous scenic drives, a wide variety of outdoor recreation, interesting history and picturesque mountain resorts.
The Bison is the official logo of Custer State Park and it’s no wonder as it’s main claim to fame is that of a world class wildlife refuge. Nearly 1,600 buffalo, one of the largest herds anywhere in the world, roam free in these foothills. The scenic Wildlife Loop Road winds through the prime buffalo range in the south-eastern part of Park.
If you haven’t seen a buffalo herd up close, prepare yourself, this is one impressive sight. Frisky red calves frolic in little play groups, matronly cows wallow in dust, and massive bulls cool off in waterholes. Despite their size, these buffalos are agile, quick and fearless, watching are early morning stampede is a great experience!
In Custer State Park you can enjoy eleven scenic hiking trails for all abilities, balloon rides over Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills, fishing, abundance of wildlife, chuck wagon rides and cooks outs, mountain biking and rock climbing. We know you’d love the Iron Mountain Road which is part of the Peter Norbeck National Scenic Byway, this leads from the park to Mount Rushmore through pigtail turns and into three granite tunnels that frame Mount Rushmore perfectly in the distance. Boy, what a Kodak moment!
Call Bon Voyage to discuss where the best place to stay in this impressive Black Hill’s Park is, we have our favourite and we’d love to share it with you.
Things to see and do
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Wind Cave National Park
65 miles southwest is Wind Cave National Park, an underground maze of tunnels and caverns lined with “boxwork
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Jewell Cave National Park
53 miles southwest of Rapid City is the fascinating Jewel Cave National Monument. The names derived from it’s interior-a myriad of
