Overview
About Playhouse Entrance Station
Why stop
- Direct access to the Playhouse Road area
Heads up
- The theatre is a separate stop about two miles south
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Custer Tour Guide
Your drive to Playhouse 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 Living Crust on a Rock“Those gray, green or orange patches on a boulder may be alive. They're often lichens, made by a fungus living with algae or tiny bacteria that can use sunlight to make food.”
Plays on the road 0.1 mi from Playhouse Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Custer Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- The Tunnels Beneath Pine Bark
- Why the Road Curls
- Center Lake: A Lake Day and Lost Stone Paths
- Black Hills Playhouse: A Summer Show
- 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 Playhouse Entrance Station
Enter for the Playhouse sidePlayhouse Entrance is a Custer State Park entrance booth on the park's northern boundary, where…
Playhouse Entrance is a Custer State Park entrance booth on the park's northern boundary, where Playhouse Road enters the park. It's a practical way in for the Black Hills Playhouse area and nearby park roads, not a place to linger. Visitors need a Custer State Park entrance license.
Have the license readyThe park lists self-service entrance kiosks among its facilities, but doesn't say whether this…
The park lists self-service entrance kiosks among its facilities, but doesn't say whether this booth is staffed or self-service. Have your license sorted before you reach the crossing.
Keep it separate from the theatreThe Black Hills Playhouse is a separate destination about two miles south along Playhouse Road.
The Black Hills Playhouse is a separate destination about two miles south along Playhouse Road. This booth is the way into the park; the theatre is where you go for a performance.
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.
