After leaving Legion Lake, we got a nice view of some bison just off the road!
We relaxed in the water and the kids made sandcastles, followed by dinner at the restaurant on site.
After completing the wildlife loop, it was time to cool off. Legion Lake sits on the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway and has an array of offerings from campsites to camping cabins, hiking trails and swimming beach to a fishing dock, restaurant and general store.
Stella feeding one of the burros an apple.
These animals have roamed the expanses of Custer State Park for nearly a century when they were first used as pack animals to get visitors from Sylvan Lake Lodge up the steep path to the summit of Black Elk Peak. When those tourist trips ended, the working burros were released to the wild and the tiny feral herd has since shared the park with neighbors, including whitetail and mule deer, wild turkeys, elk, antelope, bison, and coyote.
Driving further.....wild donkeys (Burros)!
We spotted several deer, before seeing this big guy resting in the shade. (3:30 pm). Unfourtnetly, Foster was wiped out and missed our first sighting.
All of us were keeping an eye of for wildlife.
CUSTER STATE PARK - beautiful drive thru Custer, taking in the scenery of lush green plains surrounded by the Black Hills.
After our Rushmore visit we continued on route 16 to Custer State Park.
Stella pointed out this colorfull cloud above Mount Rushmore during our visit.
MOUNT RUSHMORE- 1st National Park in the United States. Majestic figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, surrounded by the beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota.
During our stay at Hill City, South Dakota (Horsethief Campground, June 28th -July 1st), we visited MOUNT RUSHMORE.
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