Custer Trail Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 13All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Custer Trail Campground is a small, lakeside campground situated on the north side of Deerfield Reservoir. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
Deerfield Lake Loop trailhead parking is located adjacent to the vault toilet nearby. please stay in designated parking sites for your campsite to allow trail users access to the area.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13 · 8 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 8 of 13 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 13 of 13 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 5 of 13 campsite records, DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 5 of 13 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 5 of 13 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
- Night sky · 8th darkest of 52 in SD
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 34 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 sites
All 13 sites
| Main | 01 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 02 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 03 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 04 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 05 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 06 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 07 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 08 | tent only nonelectric | |
| Main | 09 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft |
| Main | 10 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft |
| Main | 11 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft |
| Main | 12 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft |
| Main | 13 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Bearlodge Campground0.0 mi
Beaver Creek Campground0.0 miBlack Fox Campground0.0 mi
Black Hills Off-Season Campgrounds0.0 mi
Castle Peak Campground0.0 mi
Ditch Creek Campground0.0 miThe agency publishes this point for 13 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lead, SD
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 50°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Custer Trail Campground is in South Dakota’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Dusty Johnson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →