Custer, South Dakota

Only about 100 miles west of the Badlands are South Dakota’s Black Hills. We stayed in the town of Custer, just west of Custer State Park.

The town and the park are both named after Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer who camped here in 1874, just two years before his run-in with Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

Bison can be seen all over the town.