Custer

Custer combines a compact frontier-era downtown with a pine-covered Black Hills setting in a way that reflects its gold-rush history and position near Custer State Park. French Creek runs through the city, while granite formations and ponderosa forest shape the southern Black Hills beyond it. Founded in 1875, Custer developed amid the Black Hills gold rush and retains the 1881 Custer County Courthouse, now a museum documenting local settlement and county history. The city is also a practical base for the park’s Wildlife Loop Road and the Needles district, where narrow granite spires define the terrain. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Custer and the southern Black Hills relate to their surroundings.

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