Favorite Rides Spring 2018 | Page 77

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SPRING 2018 ISSUE 01 / VOL . 03
The largest herd of bison in North America make their home in Custer State Park .
My next destination was Custer State Park . As I rode over a hill , I was astonished to see a vast herd of grazing bison arrayed in the rolling green meadows and woods below . Whenever they felt like it , the huge animals lumbered onto the road , apparently oblivious to the automobiles and bikes creeping slowly by . This , as it turns out , is the largest wild bison population in the country and was a setting for the movie , “ Dances with Wolves .”