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Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Custer Tour Guide
Your drive to Blue Bell Entrance Station, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Custer State Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this area
The Squirrel’s Winter Store“On a forest walk, a pile of pine cone scraps can be a clue to a red squirrel. These small squirrels eat the seeds inside cones and leave the remains in a heap called a midden.”
Plays on the road 0.5 mi from Blue Bell Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Custer Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Why Trout Like Cold Water
- Blue Bell: Creekside Dining and Horseback Rides
- The Bat's Feeding Buzz
- French Creek Horse Camp: A Base for Riders
- 82 audio storiesacross Custer’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Bison, Wapiti, Bighorn Sheep, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 40 trails, 49 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“We recently toured Badlands, Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore and more! We learned so much from this app as we toured each of these sites. The audio tours are worth the money.”
Guide
More about Blue Bell Entrance Station
A quick checkpointBlue Bell Entrance Station is the vehicle-entry checkpoint at Custer State Park’s Blue Bell…
Blue Bell Entrance Station is the vehicle-entry checkpoint at Custer State Park’s Blue Bell entrance, beside Wildlife Loop Road. Drivers stop here to handle their park vehicle pass before continuing.
The loop begins hereThe station sits beside Wildlife Loop Road, an 18-mile scenic drive through the park.
The station sits beside Wildlife Loop Road, an 18-mile scenic drive through the park. The route is open year-round, so this is a useful entry point if you’re setting out to explore the loop.
Allow time for stopsThe park guide estimates about 45 minutes to drive the loop.
The park guide estimates about 45 minutes to drive the loop. That is road time; leave longer if you plan to pause along the way.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Custer
993 sightingsBisonMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
91 sightingsWapitiMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
258 sightingsBighorn SheepMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
85 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
256 sightingsBurroMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
707 sightingsPronghornMost seen around 6 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Custer. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
