Overview
About West Entrance Station
Why stop
- Friendly staff can offer useful wildlife and attraction tips when they’re on duty.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Custer Tour Guide
Your drive to West 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
Gordon Stockade: Gold and the Treaty“Up ahead is Gordon Stockade, a reconstructed log fort on the site where gold seekers settled in eighteen seventy-four.”
Plays on the road 0.4 mi from West Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Custer Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Doran Trail: Stone Paths Above Stockade Lake
- How Water Striders Stay Afloat
- Stockade Lake: Water or a Ridge Walk
- The President's Well-Stocked Stream
- 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 West Entrance Station
A practical west-side entryWest Entrance Station is the booth at Custer State Park's west entrance on US 16A, near…
West Entrance Station is the booth at Custer State Park's west entrance on US 16A, near Stockade Lake. It's an access stop, not a sightseeing destination. Use it to sort out park entry before you turn off the highway.
Know the US 16A ruleNon-stop through traffic on US 16A doesn't need a park license.
Non-stop through traffic on US 16A doesn't need a park license. If you're leaving the highway to explore Custer State Park, plan on a license. GPS can be unreliable in this area, so keep the park map handy.
Ask for local adviceA few visitors mention a friendly welcome and useful suggestions for wildlife and things to see.
A few visitors mention a friendly welcome and useful suggestions for wildlife and things to see. If staff are on duty, ask for a route tip; otherwise, use the map to orient yourself before heading farther in.
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.
