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The Glamorous Night Life of State Parks
Custer State Park, SD, July 2025 See the glamorous night life of Custer State Park in Blur-o-Vision (patent pending)! Kate and John sat through an hour long park presentation about nocturnal animals. It was definitely geared towards kids, and the yammering and squalling kids made it hard to hear the presentation. Mostly, we learned that…
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Needles Highway and Custer
Custer State Park & Custer City, SD, July 2025 Today started out with John inspecting the roof for potential tree damage. John wanted to do this before the upcoming rainfall since a small portion of the roof was scraped by trees when we were backing into the site. Fortunately, the roof looked good and did…
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Wildlife Visitor Center Custer State Park
Custer State Park, SD, July 2025 John would tell you that I have an obsession with 2 things. Post cards and cancel stamps. I did not collect my cancel stamp when we went to the visitor center at the entrance of the park because I was out of cancel stamp pages in my book. At…
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Jewel Cave National Monument & Canyon Hike
Jewel Cave National Monument, SD, July 2025 There are 3 national monuments within an hour of Custer State Park. The monuments are Jewel Cave National Monument, Wind Cave National Monument and Mount Rushmore National Monument. Jewel Cave has a .25 mile, 3.5 mile, and 5.5 mile hike near it. The .25 miles hike starts and…
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Thunder Cats
Custer State Park, WY, July 2025 We have been very fortunately this year to with very few thunderstorms. In Yellowstone, we had more snow than rain. We did have a little rain in 7th Ranch Campground in Wyoming but nothing of major note. That all ended in Custer State Park. We had a thunder and…