Burning Beetle | Fire, Friends + Music

Burning Beetle

Fire, Friends and Music unite for a torch parade, burning the largest Beetle you've ever laid your eyes upon.
The night is filled with the After Burn, a multi venue music menagerie.

*photo by Paul Horsted

The Burning Beetle event was created to help the Custer community + Black Hills come to grips with a beetle epidemic. Since then, it has evolved to celebrate and unite through art, as well as community. Landing on the third Saturday of January, locals + lookers bring fire to the beetle and chant

Burn Beetle Burn!

Saturday, January 20th 2024



8 AM - 12 PM | Hjem A.M. | Brunch | Reservations Highly Recommended

9 AM-5 PM | Broken Boot Dispensary PREORDER | Buy a Poncho Win Prizes

2:30 PM | SD Outdoor Shop | The Lonely Rangers | Sawyer Tap Takeover

2:30 Custer High School | Torch Ticket Sales

3:30 PM | Variety Show at Custer High School Theater

5 PM | Gather for Torch March at Custer High School Parking Lot

CHS Cross County team carries torch from Beetle to CHS

5:15 PM | Torch March leaves CHS Parking Lot to Pageant Hill

5:30 PM (ish) | BURN, BEETLE, BURN! at Pageant Hill

6 PM
BUG CRAWL
A Multi-Venue Party Downtown Custer

- Custer Wolf | Lost Cabin Tap Takeover

Gold Pan Saloon | 6 PM | JJ Kent

- Custer Beacon | 6:30 PM | Ponder the Albatross | Clayton Ryan Band

- Custer VFW | 7 PM | Stateline Ramblers Band

- Custer VFW | Youth Event Downstairs, hosted by HOSA

- Old Pine Social | Axe Throwing | Dakota Point Tap Takeover | Jonathan Jacky | Game On Videogame Truck

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