Location: Game Lodge Campground, Custer Park, SD
This is our third time at Custer State Park and everytime we visit it's a completely different experience. All so good. This place is amazing!! After a bike ride to the Visitor Center we couldn't wait to drive thru the park. Fair warning...lots of cute animal pictures coming.
Ironically, General Custer died 140 years ago today at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Custer State Park is famous for its buffalo. Yep, saw a couple of herds. I caught this guy chomping away.
This one is carrying 2 birds on his back.
We spent a lot of time just hanging out watching the prairie dogs. These little guys are hilarious!
Lunch time.
These burros are not native to the Black Hills. They are descendants from the herd that once hauled visitors to the top of Harney Peak. The rides were discontinued years ago and the burros were released into the park. They now just hang out on the Wildlife Loop Road. They are pretty domesticated. Here is one coming up to our car and Ned feeding it some apples.
I got out to see if the baby burro wanted to eat some apples. He was still nursing so he wasn't interested in my apple. So, does this make him a "burrito?".
Hi Ned, I heard you got some apples there...
We also spotted a coyote
A fawn
And a pronghorn.
Ned photographing the photographer or maybe just another wild animal in her natural habitat...
We had lunch at the Game Lodge. There are several lodges throughout the park. This actually feels more like a National Park than a State Park with the lodges, campgrounds and visitor centers.
This lodge was known as the Summer White House for Calvin Coolidge in 1927. Dwight Eisenhower also used it as a summer residence in 1953.
Tonight we are enjoying our campsite, right next to a creek. We'll be here a couple of days so time to put up the hammock, pop a cold one, and enjoy the evening!
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