A Picnic Lunch at Custer State Park with the Buffalo Herd

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A Picnic Lunch at Custer State Park with the Buffalo Herd

We’d been out west for several days now and I had yet to see any buffalo. So we headed to Custer State Park where there were sure to be many. Mike was determined to drive until we found some buffalo for me to see. The first one I saw was a stuffed buffalo in the state park store. Sigh. Not exactly what I was looking for.

As we’d planned to have a picnic lunch, we picked up a few things to add to that and headed out again. We had asked in the store where we might find the buffalo and they told us to head to this ranger station and to ask the ranger on duty.

See the wooden buffalo on the map above? This is the map that shows where the buffalo are this afternoon. As the buffalo move throughout the park, the wooden buffalo magnets on the map get moved. After we thanked the park ranger, we headed out again to have our picnic and hopefully to see some buffalo.

As we came over the hill and saw the line of cars that had slowed down and buffalo in the distance I began to get excited. We hadn’t just found one or two buffalo, we’d found a whole herd!

This was our view as we stopped to eat lunch in our truck. This pic was the left-side view.

This pic was the straight-ahead view.

It was one of the most exciting picnic lunches I have ever had. So we sat there for a while, ate our lunches, and then Mike started slowly driving through the park again as I took pictures of the buffalo.

We saw mothers with their young and we saw big bulls.

Some mothers and their young even crossed the road in front of us.

I used my zoom on my phone camera for these pics. You should not get this close to a buffalo and her young.

It seems that the buffalo were full from their grassy lunches and were ready to nap in the warm summer sunshine.

Driving away from the buffalo herd we saw pronghorn deer.

Then we saw an older buffalo bull by himself. The older buffalo bulls are driven from the herd by the younger bulls.

There was another bull a little bit further on. We drove on to Wind Cave but got there too late to get into one of their tours. We’ll have to save that for a future visit. There was a small museum that we went through before heading back to the RV Park.

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