Pageant Hill in Custer, SD is approximately 15 acres. Pageant Hill was the location of the Pageant of Paha Sapa which was an outdoor musical conceived by a group of women from the Custer Women's Civic Club running from 1924 to 2001. The Pageant was created to commemorate the cultures defining Custer and was part of the Gold Discovery Days.
The Pageant bursts with song and dance from the awakening of the flowers through the dances of the elements of nature, the haunting Indian strains, the rousing cavalry calls, and the pioneer's square dances. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge and wife Grace were spectators at the Pageant.
Pageant Hill is also the location of fireworks, summer concerts, a disc golf course, hot air balloons, sledding in the winter and the Burning Beetle in January.