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24834 S Playhouse Rd, outside of Custer, SD in Custer State Park
The Black Hills Playhouse is located in Custer State Park between Iron Mountain Road and the Needles Highway on Co Hwy 753 near Center Lake Campground. Check out a detail map here at Black Hills Badlands & Lakes or follow the directions below.  Cell phones do not always work in this area of the Black Hills, but if you need help finding us, you may wish to call 605. 255.4141.  See you at the Playhouse!

Shortcut directions from Rapid City
  • From I-90  take Exit 57 (I-190)
  • Left at first stop light (Omaha)
  • Right at first stop light (Mt. Rushmore Rd)
  • Stay on Mt. Rushmore Road for approximately 13 miles (it becomes US Hwy16)
  • Change to left lane at Old McDonald’s Farm…or there about
  • Left at 1st Rockerville Exit
  • Bottom of exit take left on S. Rockerville Rd
  • Cross Hwy into forest and drive for quite awhile (approximately 5 miles)
  • First stop sign, take a left onto Hwy 40 (this is a short jog…less than ¼ mi.)
  • Take first right onto Playhouse Road (go approximately 4 miles)
  • Take left at first stop sign onto Iron Mt. Road/Hwy16 (go less than ¼ mi.)
  • Take first right on S. Playhouse Road
  • Stay on this road (approximately 3 miles)
  • the BHP will be on your left after Center Lake Campground turn off

Directions from Custer
§  Go east on Hwy 16A – 7.3 miles
§  Turn left on Peter Norbeck Scenic By Way/SD 87 – 2.9 miles
§  Turn Right on 753/South Playhouse Road (there is a Playhouse sign)-.5 miles
§  The Black Hills Playhouse will be on your right.



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Black Hills Playhouse | PO Box 2513 | Rapid City, SD 57709 | 605.255 4141
contact@blackhillsplayhouse.com | www.blackhillsplayhouse.com

BHP is a summer stock theatre which receives support from the University of South Dakota, Black Hills Playhouse Alumni Association, Custer State Park, Allied Arts Fund of Rapid City, the South Dakota Arts Council through the Department of Tourism & State Development, the National Endowment for the Arts, generous foundation, corporation donors, loyal patrons and audience members like you!