Custer, South Dakota: Custer's Gulch RV Park

Today was spent in and around Custer, SD getting ready for tomorrow's departure. Only going to Rapid City, about 90 minutes from here, where we have an appointment to have the RV serviced. If all goes well we hope to be in the Devil's Tower area by tomorrow evening.


We will be sorry to leave here. Custer's Gulch RV Park has been an excellent RV park, quiet and peaceful, plus it has a central location to the many activities in the Black Hills and Badlands. One of the entrances to Custer State Park, the largest state park in the US, is only 5 minutes from here although it stretches for many miles east, north and south.


To top it off, the managers/owners of Custer's Gulch are extremely nice and go out of their way to make you feel welcome. This is their first year as park owners and have been making upgrades here and there, not that much was needed. Again, one of the most relaxing parks we have stayed in over the last 8 months.


This afternoon we went into Custer to drop off a package at the post office and to take a tour of the 1881 Courthouse, which has been converted into a museum. Even though Custer has a population of only 1860 people today, during it's gold rush heyday it boasted a population of ~10,000. Then gold was discovered in the Spearfish Canyon about an hour from here and most of the population picked up and left.


Great museum covering town history, Black Hills history, Native American artifacts, mining and forestry exhibits and of course, the courthouse itself.


All in all, this area of South Dakota has been very good to us and we'll miss it; I know we'll be back.


See Ya!