Custer State Park Overview - South Dakota 

Custer State Park Overview - South Dakota
Custer State Park is a massive 71,000 acre park with 9 separate campgrounds. The park has cabins and 4 lodges as well as tent camping and RV camping. It sports several camp stores, a couple of places where you can fill you vehicle with gas, and at least a couple of laundromats. At least a couple of restaurants are inside the park.
Custer State Park has a flat $20 fee to enter the park. The pass is good for 6 nights and 7 days. If you are going to stay longer than 7 days, you will want to be a year long pass for $36 which is good from May of this year until May of next year.
The Custer State Park Visitor Center is quite large and packed with information about the park. The rangers are most helpful.
Three of the campgrounds in Custer State Park are located on lakes. We seen people on paddle boards and in kayaks and canoes enjoying the water.
You can buy a one day fishing license at one of the camp stores and fish any o the lakes in the park. We need to note that three single day fishing licenses are cheaper than a 3 day license.
You can also swim in the lakes. When we were there in September, the temperature never got to 80 degrees, yet people were swimming every day.
Also, within the park are three scenic loops that we highly recommend you drive. They are the Iron Mountain Road, Needles Highway, and the wildlife loop.
Our campground, Center Lake Campground, is just 16 miles from Mount Rushmore. Keystone is close to Custer State Park, and it is a great tourist destination. Custer State Park is near both Wind Cave and Jewel Cave. The Crazy Horse Monument is close to the park, and the Mammoth Site and Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota is relatively close to the park.
All of the campgrounds in Custer State Park require reservations. For Center Lake Campground, same day reservations are required.
Custer State Park has a bison herd of about 1,300 - 1,400. Every year the park has what they call a buffalo roundup where they gather the bison in one location and vaccinate the young. They also thin the herd if they need to. The rangers know how many bison the land in the park will sustain. They do not put out any food for the bison, so they don't want the herd to become larger than the land can feed.
For all nine campgrounds in Custer State Park, there is a single dump station. It will accommodate 2 RVs, and there is potable water at the dump station.
We do recommend that you get a map at Wall Drug or possibly elsewhere before you start to drive in the park with your RV. There are places on Iron Mountain Road and Needles Highway where you cannot take an RV. It may be too low and too narrow.