Way Park is located at the corner of Mt. Rushmore Road and 4th Street, in front of the Custer County Courthouse and across the street from the 1880 Courthouse Museum and is .62 acres.
Way Park has three picnic tables (one handicap accessible), five sitting benches, and one water drinking fountain.
Way Park also has a memorial tree and a memorial dedicated to the memory of Horace N. Ross, discover of gold in the Black Hills at Custer, South Dakota on July 27, 1874. Also in Way Park is Dr. Flick Cabin, which was donated to the City of Custer in 1875 along with the land for Way Park.
The Dr. Flick cabin was the first building erected in the Black Hills. Dr. D.W. Flick built it of substantial hund-hewn logs and designed it as a home for his family.
Annie Tallent says in her book, The Black Hills or the Last Hunting Grounds of the Dakotahs, that: "When the building neared completion, the doctor consented to leave the Hills with the exodus of miners in obedience to the order of General George Crook in August of 1875."
The building was completed by Captain Pollock and occupied by him as a military headquarters.
Mrs. S.M. Booth, one of Custer's very earliest settlers, states that when she and her husband arrived, the cabin was there. As reported in the "Chronicles of Yesteryears, 1923 in the CUSTER COUNTY CHRONICLE, published in 1983, she states that it had been built (finished?) by the soldiers and was occupied as officers' quarters. The port hole and other markings of the old building verify these statements. A corral back of the cabin joined it. The corral had no gate; horses could not be placed in the corral or taken out without bringing them through the cabin.
Mrs. Tallent went on to tell that in April, 1876, Dr. Flick and family returned to find the cabin occupied by Poet Scout Captain Jack Crawford.
A dispute arouse between Dr. Flick and Captain Crawford which ended in being the second suit for equity in the Black Hills. The bearing was held before Provisional Justice Keifer and a jury of five miners, good and true. After Attorney Tom Harvey for Captain Jack and Dr. Flick for himself, waxed cloquently in their summation, the jury of honest miners rendered a verdict for the defendant, Dr. D. W. Flick.
In 1922, Harry Way who eventually obtained the cabin, had the rustic cobblestone fireplace built and the ceiling put in. Electricity and other modern touches were added.
