Custer State Park sits between Wind cave and Mount Rushmore. Within the park is a scenic drive that includes Needles Highway. This area, along with Wind Cave, is in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. The entire scenic drive was beautiful. Here is a herd of Pronghorn:
Some Beautiful landscape:
This is Needles Highway, lined with granite pillars, towers and spires.
There were many hairpin turns and three very small tunnels:
At the entrance of the park, we were given information on the dimensions of the tunnels. Terri’s truck just fit.
This tunnel is called the Eye of the Needle- for obvious reasons:
WHEW! Terri did a great job of navigating these tunnels. Side view mirrors in tact!
We also visited a place called Sylvan Lake. This was such a unique lake with all the granite rock:
When we were planning this trip, we did not consider the first full week of August is Sturgis week and we were in South Dakota at the end of July. Many Bikers show up early for this yearly event and check out South Dakota’s Black Hills, Badlands and other attractions. We passed hundreds of the early birds.
These group of bikers caught our eye and then we looked closer:
There was a herd of feral burrows that gathered on the scenic overlook.This was the most amazing experience!
Typically we would never pet the animals, but these were domesticated at one time and were just looking for some love.
And if this little girl was not afraid, why should we be….
This guy wants a ride a ride to Sturgis!
That was sooo cool! I wanna a pony and a donkey!