Badlands & Custer SP. Difference in June vs August?
Our two options to visit Custer SP and the Badlands next year are the third week of June or the end of August. Is there any difference or advantage or disadvantage with either time frame? Thanks
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June on the plains that far north it is starting to get warm, things are getting green, wildflowers growing like crazy, trees flowering, grasses doing first flowering. You can still have cool days, might have hot days.
August, it is going to be hot. July is hot, August tends to be hotter, and can be a bit more humid as Gulf air masses push ever further north through the summer. Maybe very late August it can be starting to cool down into the 80s occasionally, but that part of the country starts getting autumn relief well after Labor Day.
School may have already started locally, but traffic in vacation areas is from elsewhere, and there can be an end of summer vacation rush for the families who start school at the beginning of September.
August, it is going to be hot. July is hot, August tends to be hotter, and can be a bit more humid as Gulf air masses push ever further north through the summer. Maybe very late August it can be starting to cool down into the 80s occasionally, but that part of the country starts getting autumn relief well after Labor Day.
School may have already started locally, but traffic in vacation areas is from elsewhere, and there can be an end of summer vacation rush for the families who start school at the beginning of September.
