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Schedule extra time for Sylvan Lake — Custer State Park, SD

We usually plan fairly well when mapping out our day-to-day itineraries for a long trip. We know how much time to project for each stop so we can estimate where to spend the night, how long it will take to travel between sites, and what we’ll do when we get to where we’re going. But […]

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Life is short, take the curves: Needles Highway, SD

South Dakota’s Custer State Park may be on your list of best places to visit for a chance sighting of buffalo in the Wildlife Scenic Loop. But for sheer scenery you don’t want to miss Needles Highway. Needles is part of the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway named for former SD Governor Peter Norbeck who mapped […]

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Rush hour: Custer State Park

“Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” Kellie Elmore You’ve seen the pictures in brochures, but until you experience it, you may not understand the rush that comes from at afternoon herd movement in SouthDakota’s Custer State Park. Even though we’d seen pictures of massive buffalo roaming freely in […]

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A truly great thing: Mount Rushmore National Memorial

More and more we sensed that we were creating a truly great thing, and after a while all of us old hands became truly dedicated to it and determined to stick to it. Otto “Red” Anderson, driller and assistant carver With nearly three million visitors from all over the world coming to Mount Rushmore each […]

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It’s all good in Badlands National Park!

People told us we picked a great time to visit the Badlands. “You’ve come at a great time,” they’d say. But we didn’t get it. After all, we’d never been to the Badlands on any day before now. But after the short trip from Wall Drug Store down I-90, we began to see what the […]

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Kickin’ it in South Dakota: the journey begins!

Two events got me to thinking about what to write next: 1) National Travel & Tourism Week 2020 and 2) our coronavirus shelter-in-place mandates. If Bert and I go anywhere right now, it will be within the continental U. S. and probably near a national park. So, with that in mind, I’m sharing a trip […]