Over the next few days we visited a bunch of other places in the Black Hills working out of our campsite in Custer State Park. Some of the places we visited included the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, Jewel Cave National Monument, Bear Country, and the historic 1936 WPA Dinosaur Park in Rapid City. We also drove the wildlife loop Custer State park where we found ourselves stuck on the road in the middle of a huge herd of Buffalo. Once again I was glad that the Shasta was safe back at the campsite but a little sad at the missed photo opportunity.
I Just recently ran across a really cool old travelog that is posted on the Tin Can Tourists site. It describes a more ambitious cross country trip than ours that was made in 1937 towing a Travelo trailer. I'll post the link here because one of the places they camped at was in Rapid City near the then new Dinosaur Park. They also describe the partially completed Rushmore monument, and like us stopped for a night in Buffalo Bills hometown of North Platte.
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