The rumble of hoofbeats fills the air as hundreds of bison charge across the plains, driven by the crack of whips and the shouts of riders on horseback.

"It's something that, you wait for it and wait for it all year long, and it takes about an hour and a half," said Bob Lantis, one of the horseback riders. "But in that hour and a half, you're moving with lightning speed and you're really getting after it and yelling and screaming and what have you. It's really something."

In a five-part video series called “Into the Roundup" that launched Sept. 9, Travel South Dakota explores the annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup , when roughly 1,300 bison that normally roam free in the park are corralled in front of tens of thousands of people looking on. In 2024, a record 24,178 people a

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