High up in the Black Hills is one of South Dakota’s true treasures, the Needles Hwy in Custer State Park. It’s a beautiful place! The road winds for miles past beautiful canyons and spire rock formations. And driving here is a real experience with hair pin turns and rock tunnels barely wide enough to get through! 

Yes, we really drove thru with not a whole lot of room to spare!

The Needles EyeThe park is home to aprox. 1300 Bison. This guy thought the road side was a good place for lunch! He didn’t seem to mind Susan getting this shot of his good side!!

The best way to describe this National Park is that we left earth and landed on another planet! This incredibly harsh landscape, what once was ocean bottom millions of years ago, goes on for miles and miles!

The layers you see were caused by the receding waters leaving the beautiful colors and peaks several hundred feet high.

Every Turn brought new views!

…..and we passed on hiking!!