Custer State Park

Custer State Park is loaded with nature and is perfect for educational tours. Grab your binoculars and experience the beauty and wildlife on a guided tour of the park’s Wildlife Loop Road. Let your group tours play an active habitat game, study the unique traits of area mammals while making plaster casts of their tracks or create a basket using only pine needles and sinew (bison tendons). Catch the fever of the 1870s gold rush that made the Black Hills region famous. Get your feet wet and meet a park interpreter for an exciting hands-on gold panning demonstration.

An educational and exciting experience for student tours is the annual Buffalo Roundup, held the final Monday of September. The roundup is one of the aspects that keeps the herd size at a level that the park can support over the winter. During the roundup, the herd is moved into a system of corrals along the Wildlife Loop Road. Once corralled, handlers test, vaccinate, brand and sort the bison. The event, which is open to the public, attracts more than 12,000 people each year.

Evening interpretive programs are presented in four of the park’s campgrounds, including Blue Bell, Center Lake, the State Game Lodge and Stockade Lake North. Park naturalists present educational programs on a variety of subjects, including plants and wildlife, habitats, conservation, outdoor recreation, geology, astronomy and park history.

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