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rvshrinker
Explorer III
Nov 21, 2019

Custer SP?

Sounds like this park has good reviews for a week next June. Using as a home base for all the sights. Would like full hookups. Any comments or thoughts? It sounds like there are several units in the park, which is nicest or most convenient?
  • No SD State Park offers full hook ups All SD state parks are electric only , primative, with a community water tap and a dump station. Except In Custer State Park there is only one dump station for all 5 camps. If it is not convenient to you, there are options in private parks nearby to dump.
  • Beaverlake campground near the town of Custer.
    Custer state park is nicer than many national parks or monuments imo
  • SDcampowneroperator wrote:
    No SD State Park offers full hook ups All SD state parks are electric only , primative, with a community water tap and a dump station. Except In Custer State Park there is only one dump station for all 5 camps. If it is not convenient to you, there are options in private parks nearby to dump.


    You beat me to it and you are right.
  • donkeydew wrote:
    Beaverlake campground near the town of Custer.
    Custer state park is nicer than many national parks or monuments imo


    Yes it is.
  • WE stayed at Rafter J which is nice. But back then Custer didn't have electric. If we went again,we would stay in the park. With just 2 of us,we can go 5 days before dumping black water. If we take our showers in the bath houses,grey water isn't an issue either. Make sure you do the wild life loop and Iron Mtn Highway. Other neat things to see outside the par are Bear Country USA,the Cosmos, The Badlands and Wall Drug just for kicks.
  • We stayed in the Game Lodge campground last month. Very nice and a great dump station and water supply at 43.756452, -103.370539, just outside the campground.

    WE were leaving the campground on the way to the dump station and had to navigate around these. My wife was following the RV and took these pictures.


  • Stockade Lake South does have bathrooms and showers available onsite if that helps

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