RV Driver Tries To Scrape Through South Dakota Needles Eye Tunnel, Gets Stuck
A couple was videotaping the Needles Eye Tunnel in South Dakota’s Custer State Park on Friday when a motorhome tried to thread the narrow opening and became stuck. “I think he just thought he could get through,” they said.
Some places just aren’t a good fit for RVs and motorhomes.
The Needles Highway in South Dakota’s Custer State Park, near Mount Rushmore, is one of them.
Denise Yelton and Todd Beaver discovered that during an excursion in Custer recently when a motorhome intended to thread the Needles Eye Tunnel found itself fraying halfway through.
Yelton and Beaver, who have been “full-time RVers” since April, decided to take an early-morning drive on the Needles Highway on Friday. They departed in their Jeep Gladiator, leaving their 38-foot Holiday Rambler Nautica parked at the campground.
“We left early because we knew the highway would get really crowded with Sturgis,” Yelton told Cowboy State Daily. “When we got to the tunnel, we pulled over because I wanted to record a video of my husband coming through the tunnel.”
When they pulled off the road, the Freedom Elite motorhome behind them kept going. That’s when disaster struck.