Yellowstone Trip - Days 16-18: Custer State Park

Custer State Park is east of Yellowstone by a day's drive in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  We saw more animal life here than in Yellowstone.  The campsite within the park was also pretty nice.  We didn't get a chance to grill out much 'cause of our agenda to see stuff, but still, the North Stockade CG is pretty nice.

 

 Take a look at the Granite spears below.  If you look closely, you can see the tunnel!  There were 6 scattered throughout the park.  Two of them line up with Mt Rushmore as the background when driving through them.

This particular tunnel is on the Needles Scenic Loop drive.  Very, very worthwhile drive.

Yep, Mt. Rushmore is right at Custer State park.  It was only about 13 miles from our campground (on curvy roads).  Oddly, for me, the presidents are much smaller than I anticipated with a man being only just smaller than Washington's nose.   I always thought the monument was HUGE.  Not so much.  Still, a must see.  A note was that the Crazy Horse monument wasn't far away from Rushmore, but only the face is somewhat completed.  We were going to go, but they wanted $20 for each person!  Wow.  We asked about exhibits and the such and determined it wasn't worth the money.