Custer State Park, South Dakota

After our week in Spearfish, we stopped in Rapid City SD for a quick recall/warranty repair at a Freightliner Truck facility and spent the day there while they were working on the coach to take a drive thru Custer State park.

While we had driven thru the Needles Highway last year ( as well as visited Crazy Horse & Mount Rushmore), this was our first time to drive all the way down/thru Custer State Park to see the Buffalo and got a surprise herd of donkeys too.  

We didn’t know we should have brought carrots to feed them!

Lots of Buffalo

Needles Highway

It was a beautiful day for a drive and you could still see some of the recent September summer snowfall left on the mountain.   

I had to pull out my winter hat for part of the drive with the Jeep top being open!

Thru one of the tunnels you can see Mount Rushmore - 

pic not very good though, can barely see it..

Updated to add link to full video of our drive 

Video - Custer Park & Needles Hwy drive


(Snippets of video below)

I Put a little video together from our drive ( but having issues uploading the full video to the blog - you can see on FB, so I’ve uploaded snippets here)

Buffalo

Donkeys

Needles Highway