Exploring Custer State Park

Saturday morning we decided to stay inside the park and just explore. This is a huge area and going just a few miles takes a while. It is very hilly and a lot of sharp turns. But the drive was beautiful.

This is some of the buffalo on the Wildlife Loop Road. This is the road where most of the animals are suppose to be.

Pronghorn Antelopes are every where

We found this cave on the Needles Highway. It was very cool and they ran right inside it.I was afraid an animal was living in it...lol.

Noah did a little rock climbing

While Kain stayed on the ground looking in the creek

We drove through a few one lane tunnels carved out of the mountain

This is why it's called the Needles Highway

Sylvan Lake was just beautiful

We found this little passage on a trail at the lake.

He is King of the World

Kain is getting to be a pretty good photographer.

We then rode to see Crazy Horse. It is still a work in progress.

I found a lot of good reviews for this little pie shop in Custer so we tried it out. YUMMY is all I can say! 2 thumbs up!

Apple pie

peanut butter pie

This was a Fort with some of the original homesteads on it.

We were told that the Elk are very shy and you rarely see them during the day. Corey was sitting on our porch and saw something way up on the mountain. He got my zoom lens and this is what he saw.

Not one but two Elk!

The Park Rangers had different things laid out for the kids to look at.

We finished up our day at the park.

You can definitely spend a week exploring the park. We had a great day just hanging out and doing what we wanted. It was nice just relaxing and not having to be anywhere. Corey barely wore his watch because we didn't need to know what time it was: