Custer State Park

To get to Wind Cave National Park we had to go through Custer State Park which is home to as many as 1,500 head of bison, more commonly known as buffalo. Bison can grow to 6 feet tall and weight more than 2,000 pounds. They are considered the largest native terrestrial mammal of North America. There were once millions of bison, but by 1900 it is estimated that fewer than 1,000 bison remained on the entire continent.