Monday, October 2, 2017

Custer State Park SD

We are a little bit south of Rapid City. We were interested in this park because it's near Wind Cave NP and Badlands NP. This state park is 71,000 acres and has a lot to offer. We were originally thinking we would visit one of those national parks per day on one of the 3 days we are camped here. That's probably not going to work. This state park is spectacular so we will have to rethink our plan. Todays driving weather was gross.  It rained all day. After we got set up we did one of the scenic drives through the park. The roads through the park are crazy twisty. We are near Sturgis and I'm pretty sure these roads are popular with bikers. There is wildlife in abundance. Deer, both muley and whitetail are everywhere, antelope too. There is a large Buffalo herd in the park but they were hiding from us. We drove by Mt. Rushmore. We didn't stop because we visited it a few years ago. We did see George in profile. If you look close at one of the pics you can see George contemplating chopping down that cherry tree. One more thing: snow is in the forcast.

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