Come vote for your favorite tree during this years' Custer State Park Festival of Trees!  You can view all of the trees set up by community partners and organizations at the Custer State Park Visitor Center throughout the month of December. Vote for your favorite and the decorating organization will win a prize!  Voting concludes January 1, 2022

Visitor Center Custer State Park

Washington Pavilion

From mid-November through the week prior to Christmas, you can obtain a permit and cut down your own ponderosa pine, spruce or juniper tree in the Black Hills National Forest. Permits can be obtained at all National Forest Service offices in the area (except the Hell Canyon Ranger District office in Custer), several surrounding National Grassland offices, some private businesses and by mail. Visit ...

Black Hills National Forest

Bring your friends and family to see the dazzling lights and hear holiday music in Winter Wonderland at Falls Park in Sioux Falls. Featured are more than 40 wreaths, 270 decorated trees, 275 decorated light poles, more than 25 miles of strings of lights, a half mile of rope lights, and multiple animated lighted features. Falls Park lights up nightly, at 5 p.m. until 12 midnight, from November 19, ...

Falls Park

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