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Traveler 2 Bünzli‘s einmal um die Welt
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- Jun 23, 2024, 1:06 PM
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 1,268 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.761692, -103.3682143°45’42” N 103°22’6” W
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Day 62
Custer State Park
June 23, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Custer State Park ist einer der grössten State Parks der USA. Er ist bekannt für seine Gestein Nadeln im Norden und für die Vielfalt der Tierwelt. 🦬 🫏 🐐🐰🦅🦌🐜🪰🐿️ 🦉Auf der Wildlife Loop sehen wir Aufgrund der Hitze nur Burros (Hausesel) und einzelne Pronghorn Antilopen. Im Visitor Center wird uns gesagt das die Herde von Bisons heute im Süden ist. Für uns Perfekt, denn dies liegt auf dem Weg zurück in den Wind Cave. 👍🏻
Die Herde von Bisons ist eine der grössten Herden der Welt. Die rund 1‘300 Tiere haben erst gerade Nachwuchs bekommen. 😍 Die Calfs sind durch ihre helle Farbe gut zu sehen. Zu spassen ist mit den Bisons nicht, die Tiere werden bis zu 2’000 Pfund schwer & können dreimal schneller rennen als der Mensch. 🏃🏼‍♀️

Melanie ist auf der Suche nach dem Mountain Bluebird, jedoch sehen wir keinen. Es ist dem Vogel wohl auch zu warm. 🥵

Präsident Calvin Coolidge hat hier seine Ferien verbracht, es gefiel im so gut dass er statt drei Wochen gleich drei Monate blieb. Somit haben wir das White House doch noch besucht. 🤩Read more
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Traveler On the road ’cross the USA II
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- Jul 9, 2017
- ☀️ 34 °C
- Altitude: 1,433 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Center Lake 43.80535, -103.4231243°48’19” N 103°25’23” W
Day 8
Black Hills
July 9, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Day seven: The first week is almost over and it was such a blast! Today we started with exploring our first national park - the Badlands. There you can feel the force of nature, it's amazing. Also we saw some wild animals like sheeps 🐑, prairie dogs 🐿 and - the best is comming at the end - two bisons 🐂🐂! Foxes live there as well but we didn't see them. But we heard them in the morning.
After leaving Badlands we took a road off (what fun! 😈) to Rapid City. There we visited a trade fair for oldtimer. It was that nice! 🚗
Back on the road we went to Mount Rushmore Memorial in Black Hills and afterwards to Hill City for eating something. We found a nice looking restaurant and chose it for rest. I tried a burger with buffalo meat and national beer from Black Hills. Both were very tasty! 🍔🍺
When we was done we tried to find a campground and found one at Center Lake in Custer State Park.
At the end of the day we got to know new campers sitting on the campfire, just hanging. But I was really tired so I fell asleep very quickly.

Badlands National Park ✔
Ride off-road ✔
Seeing bisons ✔
Eating buffalo meat ✔
Seeing oldtimers ✔
Mount Rushmore Memorial ✔
Needle Hwy ✔
Needles Eye ✔
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South Dekota ✅
Wyoming ❌
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Utah ❌
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Traveler Just Nine days and visiting four US states, must be a lot of miles...
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Ziemlich viel los bei euch, echt super 🖒
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Traveler USA
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- May 13, 2017, 6:12 PM
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 1,446 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Galena Creek 43.743032, -103.41602943°44’35” N 103°24’58” W
Day 73
Black Hills in South Dakota
May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Mit Carley und Avalon ging es zum Abschluss nach South Dakota. Eigentlich stand dieser Staat nicht auf meiner Reiseroute, aber ich bin froh, dass Carley mich eingeladen hat.
Wir haben uns den Wildlife Loop, den Cluster State Park, den Needles Highway, den Black Hills State Forest, Mount Rushmore und Old Macdonald's Farm angesehen.Read more
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Traveler Spring trip with Kayla.
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- Jun 3, 2024, 11:55 AM
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 1,455 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Galena Creek 43.742986, -103.41870943°44’35” N 103°25’7” W
Day 3
June 3
June 3, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
On this day, we went to Custer State Park. The scenery was beautiful. Pronghorn and bison were visible often. We drove Iron Mountain Road, which has tunnels that were placed strategically so that you could see Mount Rushmore through them. The second stop was Mount Rushmore, of course. Theo was with us, and dogs were not allowed in, so we took turns walking up to our and taking pictures. Next, we went to see Crazy Horse. The museum had so much to read and see. The monument itself could have been skipped for another 20 years. It's been in construction since 1948 and nowhere near completion.
We slept in the car in a Walmart parking lot and slept better than the first night. The mattress is made for the car, not a tent.Read more
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Bret Alldredge Road Trip
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- Jun 28, 2016, 4:35 PM
- 🌧 19 °C
- Altitude: 1,259 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76153, -103.3771343°45’42” N 103°22’38” W
Day 2
Crazy roads, crazy trail.
June 28, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
Today had a forecast for thunderstorms. We started the day on Iron Mountain Road. It was built so that the one lane tunnels aim at views of Mount Rushmore. After that, we saw the deadheads and Alyson earned her Jr ranger badge.
As we left, thunderstorms were moving in. We drove west towards Needles Highway. It was so narrow that we could reach out of the truck to touch trees. We stopped at Sylvan Lake. We hiked around the lake and did the first bit of Sunday Gulch trail. We may return tomorrow if weather permits. We had to return to the campground to move the camper to the next spot.Read more
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Bret Alldredge Road Trip
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- Jun 27, 2016, 10:02 PM
- 🌙 17 °C
- Altitude: 1,258 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76087, -103.374743°45’39” N 103°22’29” W
Day 1
Second day's drive
June 27, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
We woke a little late, but did do on purpose. We had pancakes for breakfast. We wanted to feel like we were camping.
We drove through Nebraska. When we left the Platte valley, the scenery changed. I finally felt like I was on vacation. The hills were really neat looking. The drive felt long today, I guess we were still tired of being in the truck. As we neared Badlands, the road became really rough. We arrived at Custer state park around dinner and decided not to go anywhere else.Read more
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Traveler The Dolores Diaries
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- Oct 28, 2017, 8:04 PM
- 🌙 7 °C
- Altitude: 4,147 ft
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76104, -103.376943°45’40” N 103°22’37” W
Day 4
Devils tower/ Dead presidents
October 28, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
After a 6 hour drive, we went to devil's tower national monument. That's a dope rock. It's 867ft tall! Someome climbed it in 18min! Also it's really crazy looking. Makes sense why it was in that one sci Fi movie. They know it was created by lava flows but aren't sure exactly how. The streaks are where the lava hardened and cracked. Most of the rocks cracked in hexagons because thats nature's strongest shape! Then it was a 2 hr drive to Mount Rushmore. It's smaller than I thought it would be. I remember learning about it when I was little and was excited to go. But Samantha Lynn Larson spoiled it for me by saying that it's located in the black hills of South Dakota, sacred Sioux land. Which our ancestors kicked them off of and then pretty soon after built a shrine to our favorite white people. An interesting symbol of patriotism. Other than that it's pretty cool?

More adventures tomorrow.Read more
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Matthijs Travels US Rockies
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- Sep 5, 2019, 7:10 PM
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 1,432 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Center Lake 43.80481, -103.4206243°48’17” N 103°25’14” W
Day 6
Central Lake Campground
September 5, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
After a busy day, I'm sleeping at the Central Lake campground. They don't have firewood here, so used some dead branches and pinecones.
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Traveler Westward Ho
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- Jul 10, 2018
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 4,364 ft
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Badger Clark Creek 43.77008, -103.4002343°46’12” N 103°24’1” W
Custer State Park
July 10, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
This afternoon we drove around the Wildlife Loop in Custer State Park. We saw herds of Buffalo crossing in front us. We also saw wild burros, big horned sheep, prairie dogs and deer.
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Bruce Thompson western Adventure
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- May 28, 2016, 12:09 PM
- 🌧 16 °C
- Altitude: 1,275 m
- United States South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.760415, -103.36885343°45’37” N 103°22’8” W
Day 3
Custer state park
May 28, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
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