Fire crews were still out Friday, mopping up the week’s second wildfire in the Custer National Forest area in South Dakota, about 45 miles south of Bowman.

Custer State Park is located in the Blackhills of South Dakota and is consistently listed as one of America's top 10 Sta. ... You will find fewer park visitors and get up into the pine forest.

In what’s become an annual winter tradition, hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the destructive impact of ...

“Custer State Park formally became the first state park in South Dakota in 1919, but the idea for a state park was born before that. Peter Norbeck (former State legislator, Governor and U.S ...

Custer State Park, a true South Dakota treasure, started as part of the Black Hills Forest Preserve in 1897 in an effort to reduce the volume of timber being cut down.

A fire at Custer State Park in western South Dakota is now 100% contained as of 2 p.m. Thursday, according to state officials. Custer State Park is located in the Black Hills and encompasses ...

Despite hundreds of written comments and at least one contentious public meeting regarding a proposed exploratory drilling project near Custer, the U.S. Forest Service has given the green-light to ...