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25th ANNUAL CUSTER DAY IS JULY 12

Release Date: June 17, 2025
Contact Information: Amy Baumer    SM.FS.scnfinfo@usda.gov

The 25th Annual Custer Day is scheduled to be held Saturday, July 12, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  The event is sponsored by the Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Land of the Yankee Fork Historical Association.   

Come join us for a fun-filled day in historic Custer, Idaho. There will be pulled pork sandwiches, Dutch oven baked beans, potatoes, and cobbler, activities for kids, melodrama on Lizzie King every hour on the hour, crosscut saw demo, quilt raffle, tour of the original General Custer Mine, gold panning, and much more! 

Directions:  turn off Highway 75 at Sunbeam and follow Forest Road #013 for nine miles.  Park at the upper Yankee Fork Gold Dredge parking lot and take the FREE shuttle bus to Custer. No parking is permitted in Custer.   

Don’t forget your sunscreen and bug spray and join us for some good old-fashioned family fun!   

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Last updated June 17, 2025