Jeep Bison Safari at Custer State Park — Full-Day Wildlife & Needles Highway Tour

The morning air in the Black Hills bites with a clean, resin-scented edge as a line of open-top Jeep Gladiators rumbles out of Keystone. Wind plays through the vehicle frames; the prairie ahead rolls like a green sea, dotted by pines and the bulked silhouettes of bison that graze with casual authority. By mid-morning the convoy turns onto gravel roads that most visitors never see, and the park unfolds — lakes cupped by granite spires, a fire tower standing like a watchful elder, and Needle-like granite towers reaching skyward.