Overview
About East Entrance Station
Why stop
- Useful eastern entry point for a visit inside the park
Heads up
- Limited to a quick vehicle transaction
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Custer Tour Guide
Your drive to East 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
Milkweed Is the Nursery“For a monarch butterfly, milkweed is a nursery as well as food. The female lays eggs beneath its leaves, and the caterpillars that hatch eat milkweed. They can't simply switch to another plant.”
Plays on the road 0.2 mi from East Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Custer Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- The Kingfisher’s Tunnel
- How the Park Became One Piece
- Tunnels That Frame Rushmore
- Custer Visitor Center: A Useful Pause
- 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 East Entrance Station
Coming in from the eastEast Entrance Station is the vehicle-license point on US 16A at Custer State Park’s eastern…
East Entrance Station is the vehicle-license point on US 16A at Custer State Park’s eastern edge, just southwest of the SD 36 junction. If you’re leaving the highway to visit the park, this is the practical place to sort out entry; continue into the park once you’re through.
When you need a licenseVehicles traveling non-stop through the park on US 16A don’t need a park license.
Vehicles traveling non-stop through the park on US 16A don’t need a park license. If you’re stopping inside, you’ll need one. The park lists self-service entrance kiosks, but this station’s staffing and hours aren’t established, so follow the posted payment instructions rather than counting on an attendant at a particular time.
A quick vehicle stopThree timber-sided booths sit across paved lanes, with a pine-covered slope behind them.
Three timber-sided booths sit across paved lanes, with a pine-covered slope behind them. This is a license stop, not a visitor center or a place to get out and explore; plan a longer break at another park destination.
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.
