Custer State Park and Black Elk Wilderness Area

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Description

Custer State Park is a South Dakota State Park and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills, United States. The park is South Dakota's largest and first state park, named after Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The park is home to a famous herd of 1500 free roaming bison. Elk, coyotes, mule deer, white tailed deer, mountain goats, prairie dogs, bighorn sheep, river otters, pronghorn, cougars, and feral burros also inhabit the park. The park is famous for its scenery, its scenic drives (Needles Highway and the wildlife loop), with views of the bison herd and prairie dog towns. The Black Elk Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The wilderness was designated by an act of Congress in 1980. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Black Elk Wilderness is part of Black Hills National Forest.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • 343.1F
  • Avenue of Flags
  • Barnes Canyon Road
  • Cathedral Spires Trail
  • Centennial Trail
  • Centennial Trail Connector
  • County Road 352
  • Csp Road 2
  • Csp Road 4
  • Custer Skywalk
  • Deegan Drive
  • Echo Valley Road
  • English Road
  • F D R 345.1C
  • French Creek Trail
  • George S. Mickelson Trail
  • Grace Coolidge Walk-in Fishing Area
  • Greyhound Gulch Road
  • Grizzly Bear Road
  • Grizzly Trail
  • Harney Peak Trail
  • Iron Creek Horse Camp Road
  • Little Devils Tower
  • Lost Cabin Spur
  • Lost Cabin Trail
  • Lost Cabin Trailhead
  • Lovers' Leap Trail
  • Norbeck Trail
  • Outlaw Ranch Road
  • Palmer Gulch Road
  • Presidential Trail
  • Rankin Ridge Trail
  • Road 341
  • Road 346
  • Sanctuary Trail
  • Sunday Gulch
  • Sunday Gulch Trail
  • Sylvan Lake trail
  • Trail #1
  • Trail 4
  • Trixie Lane
  • Truax Trail
  • Vetr 341
  • Watson Parker Road
  • Willow Creek Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • 1881 Courthouse
  • 5123 feet
  • 5157 feet
  • 5350 ft
  • ATV
  • Alpine Inn
  • Bakers Bakery
  • Bishop Mountain
  • Bismark Lake Campground
  • Bismuth
  • Bison Lookout
  • Black Elk Peak
  • Black Hills Mile Hi Motel
  • Black Hills Museum of Natural History
  • Blue Bell
  • Borglum View Terrace
  • Boss Pizza + Chicken
  • BrGr 61
  • Buckhorn Mountain
  • Calamity Peak
  • Cathedral Spires
  • Cathedral Spires Trailhead
  • Cattleman's Restaurant
  • Centennial Trail
  • Chalet Motel
  • Chief Motel
  • Cicero Peak
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
  • Crazy Horse Memorial
  • Crazy Horse Post Office
  • Creekside Lodge
  • Custer
  • Custer County Market
  • Custer Mountain
  • Custer State Park Visitor Center
  • DQ
  • Dark Horse
  • Desperados Cowboys Restaraunt
  • Doane Mountain
  • EconoLodge Custer
  • Elkhorn Mountain
  • Etta
  • FRENCH CREEK HORSE CG
  • Flashers View
  • Ford Mountain
  • Fort Welikit
  • Game Lodge Campground
  • George S. Mickelson Trail
  • Grace Coolidge Campground
  • Grapes & Grinds
  • Hardesty Peak
  • Harney
  • Harney Peak Lookout
  • Hill City
  • Hill City SD Visitor Information Center
  • Hill City Train Depot
  • Historic Viewing Terrace
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mt Rushmore/Keystone
  • Horse Thief Lake Campground
  • Humbolt Mountain
  • Ingersoll Peak
  • Iron Mountain
  • Iron Mountain Parking
  • Kennedyville
  • Keystone
  • Keystone Chamber Visitor Information Center
  • Keystone House Resturant
  • Keystone Post Office
  • Krullls Market
  • Legends Lake Lodge
  • Legion Lake Campground
  • Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center
  • Lincoln Parking Ramp
  • Little Devil's Tower
  • Lynn's Dakotamart
  • Mount Coolidge
  • Mount Rushmore
  • Mount Rushmore National Memorial
  • Mount Rushmore Viewpoint
  • Mountain Top Grille @ Rushmore Tramway Adventures
  • Mt. Rushmore KOA at Palmer Gulch
  • Needles Eye
  • Needles Eye Tunnel
  • Nihart
  • Old Baldy Mountain
  • Oreville
  • Oreville Campground
  • Our Place
  • Overlook
  • Palmer Creek Trailhead
  • Peter Norbeck Education Center
  • Peter Norbeck Visitor Center
  • Pit Toilet
  • Pizza Works
  • Quality Inn
  • Racetrack Butte
  • Red Hill
  • Red's BBQ
  • Rushmore Tramway Adventures
  • Saint Elmo Peak
  • Samelias Peak 5856 feet
  • Sculptor's Studio
  • Shady Rest Motel
  • Shady Rest Youth Area
  • Slate Creek Grille
  • Spokane
  • Spokane Creek Cabins & Campground
  • State Game Lodge
  • Stockade Lake Campground South
  • Stockade Lake North Campground
  • Storm Hill
  • Summit Peak
  • Sylvan Lake Campground
  • Sylvan Lake Lodge
  • Sylvan Lake Resort
  • The Blue Bell Lodge
  • Thunderhead Mountain
  • Washington Parking Ramp
  • White Elephant Trailhead
  • Willow Creek Horse Camp
  • Wrangler Family Dining
  • Wyndham Keystone Near Mt Rushmore

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Guimir https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adult_bison_and_calf,_Custer_State_Park,_South_Dakota_(2009-08-25).jpg Public Domain.