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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 Sylvan Lake 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
Sylvan Lake: Rocks and Water“You're coming up on Sylvan Lake, where tall granite outcrops rise straight beside the water. I'd stop here for the one-mile shore loop; allow about an hour to see the rocks and little coves up close.”
Plays on the road 0.1 mi from Sylvan Lake Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Custer Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Sylvan Lake Lodge: A Meal Above the Lake
- Little Devils Tower: The Summit Scramble
- Needle’s Eye: The Rock and the Tunnel
- Why It’s Called Black Elk Peak
- 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.”
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More about Sylvan Lake Entrance Station
The entry pointSylvan Lake Entrance Station is a vehicle gate on SD-87 into Custer State Park, on the approach…
Sylvan Lake Entrance Station is a vehicle gate on SD-87 into Custer State Park, on the approach to Sylvan Lake and the Needles Highway area. It is the practical stop for handling park admission before continuing toward those destinations.
Before you go throughHave your admission plan ready as you approach.
Have your admission plan ready as you approach. A few visitors describing this gate have mentioned queues or slow payment machines, but those reports do not predict the wait on your visit; leave a little slack if your schedule is tight.
Where it leadsThis entrance serves the Sylvan Lake approach.
This entrance serves the Sylvan Lake approach. The lake, resort and general store are separate stops in the area, so treat this as the gateway itself and continue onward for recreation or supplies.
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.
