South Dakota Department of Game, Fish & Parks (GFP)
Southwestern South Dakota
Sculptures
Mount Rushmore (National memorial)
Crazy Horse
Geologic and natural history
Badlands (National park)
The Mammoth Site
Needles
Spearfish Canyon
Mountains
Black Hills
Bear Butte (National Historic Landmark)
Black Elk Peak
Caves
Wind Cave (National park)
Jewel Cave (National monument)
Forests and wildernesses
Custer (State Park)
Black Hills (National Forest)
Black Elk (Wilderness)
Buffalo Gap (National Grassland)
Lakes
Sylvan
Pactola
Scenic byways
Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway
Spearfish Canyon
Historic sites
Minuteman Missile (National Historic Site)
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Custer State Park is a South Dakota State Park and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills of the United States. Located in Custer County, the park is South Dakota's first and largest state park, named after Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The park covers an area of over 71,000 acres (287 km2) of varied terrain including rolling prairie grasslands and rugged mountains.[2]
The park is home to a herd of 1,500 bison.[3][2] Elk, coyotes, mule deer, white tailed deer, mountain goats, prairie dogs, bighorn sheep, river otters, pronghorn, cougars, and feral burros also inhabit the park. The park is known for its scenery, its scenic drives (Needles Highway and the wildlife loop), with views of the bison herd and prairie dog towns. This park is easily accessible by road from Rapid City. Other nearby attractions are Wind Cave National Park, Mount Rushmore, Jewel Cave National Monument, Crazy Horse Memorial, and Badlands National Park.
^"Custer State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. February 13, 1980. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
^ ab"Custer State Park". Archived from the original on October 24, 2007. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
^Bonnet, Siandhara (August 30, 2021). "Woman tossed by bison at Custer State Park". Billings Gazette. Archived from the original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
CusterStatePark is a South Dakota StatePark and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills of the United States. Located in Custer County, the park is South...
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American...
inevitable." In 2022, Noem sought to locate a government-paid RV park in CusterStatePark. The proposal was met with significant opposition to include government...
Norbeck Scenic Byway. Portions of the highway are also a section of CusterStatePark's Wildlife Loop. Because of the highway's mountainous, curving nature...
monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior...
the federal or state government, such as Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park, and CusterStatePark, are located in the state. In 2011, the...
"On-a-Slant Village." A reproduction of Custer's house was built in the park in 1989, in time for the state of North Dakota's centennial celebration...
Technology. Retrieved 2012-11-10. "CusterStatePark: Hiking, Biking and Horse Trails". South Dakota Fish, Game and Parks. Retrieved 2023-05-06. Mount Rushmore...
History of Free Climbing in America, Wilderness Press "Rock Climbing in CusterStatePark". Mountain Project. Retrieved 28 March 2018. "High & Mighty: Part...
South Dakota StateParks and recreation areas range in size from the 19-acre Sandy Shore Recreation Area to the 71,000-acre CusterStatePark. It was the...
Knife, Custer's close friend, to Battle of the Little Bighorn". Billings Gazette. Retrieved 21 October 2011. Domek, Tom (2004). CusterStatePark. Arcadia...
Stateparks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State...
Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is an American national park in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982...
at their reservations throughout the state, to which non-Native Americans are sometimes invited. CusterStatePark holds an annual Buffalo Roundup, in...
the help of then-U.S. Senator Peter Norbeck, who had established CusterStatePark when he was Governor in 1919. Norbeck cautiously supported Robinson's...
near Sturgis, South Dakota, United States, that was established as a StatePark in 1961. An important landmark and religious site for the Plains Indians...
CusterStatePark (US), have for many years been approaching cars passing through the park and begging for food. Many people bring food to the park specifically...
a seven-week period. This took place at the Badlands National Park and CusterStatePark in South Dakota during the then-annual "thinning" of the buffalo...
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