South Dakota Adventure Tour
Group Air/Motorcoach Tours
July 25, 2012
Featuring Mt. Rushmore & 6 Nights in Rapid City
Tour Highlights:
- Mount Rushmore
- Mount Rushmore at Night
- Devil's Tower Nat'l Monument
- Crazy Horse Memorial
- Fort Hayes - Dances with Wolves Movie Set
- Badlands National Park
- Wall Drug Store
- Custer State Park
- Buffalo Jeep Safari
- State Game Lodge Dinner
- 1880 Train
- Mammoth Site
- Wild Horse Sanctuary
- The Journey Museum & Sioux Indian Museum
- Black Hills Gold Factory
- K-Bar S Ranch Dinner
- Chuckwagon Supper & Cowboy Show
Tour Includes:
- 10 Meals
- 6 Breakfasts & 4 Dinners
- Daily Sightseeing
- Admissions per Itinerary
- Professional Tour Director
- Motorcoach Transportation
- Baggage Handling
- Hotel Transfer
Accommodations:
- 6 Nights Accommodations
- Holiday Inn Rushmore Plaza
- Rapid City
Day 1: Arrive Rapid City
Today arrive in Rapid City. Enjoy a Welcome Dinner with your traveling companions.
Meal D; Overnight - Rapid City
Day 2: Mount Rushmore - Crazy Horse Memorial
This morning visit MT. Rushmore featuring the awesome sculptures of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Each face is 60 feet high and is carved into the ragged granite mountainside with intricate perfection. Continue onto the Crazy Horse Memorial, still in progress. View the giant mountainside sculpture of the famous Indian Chief astride his pony. This afternoon visit Custer State Park famous as a wildlife preservation featuring a herd of 1,500 free roaming buffalo. Experience a thrilling Buffalo jeep Safari in search of the herd. Enjoy dinner at the famous State Game Lodge, built in 1920 and listed on the national register of historic places with past guests include Presidents Coolidge and Eisenhower.
Meals B-D; Overnight - Rapid City
Day 3: Devil's Tower - Deadwood
Today journey west into Wyoming to visit Devil's Tower National Monument to view the 867 foot monolith. Return east into South Dakota to visit historic Deadwood, the 1876 rough and tumble gold camp & gambling town where Wild West legends were make like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Seth Bullock. The entire city is a national historic landmark and features an incredibly preserved main Street. Later drive through beautiful Spearfish Canyon, a scenic drive in the Black Hills
Meals B; Overnight - Rapid City
Day 4: Mammoth Site - Wild Horse Sanctuary
Today depart for Hot Springs to visit the Mammoth Site, a large excavation where an estimated 100 Columbia Mammoths died in a former slippery-sided sinkhole. Later visit the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, a seemingly endless prairie where hundreds of wild mustangs roam free. The sanctuary is a 300 - year step into America with Native American petroglyphs & an authentic Sun Dance Site along with the Crazy Horse movie set
Meal B; Overnight - Rapid City
Day 5: Badlands National Park - Fort Hays
Today visit and drive through Badlands National Park, located between the White and Cheyenne Rivers. The area contains spectacular examples of weathering, erosion, fantastic ridges, cliffs and canyons of variegated color. Later explore the usual and well know Wall Drug Store, famous for it "Free Ice Water" This afternoon visit the Fort Hays Dances with Wolves Movie Set to see some of the original buildings used in the Oscar winning film. Tonight enjoy a fun filled Chuckwagon Supper & Cowboy Show
Meal: B-D; Overnight - Rapid City
Day 6: 1880 Train - MT. Rushmore at Night
This morning enjoy a short drive to Hill City to explore Main Street and board the 1880 Train for a rail journey through history and scenery. The 1880 Train is an authentic narrow gauge railroad dating back to the Black Hills Gold Rush. Then visit one of Rapid City's newest attractions, the city-owned $12 million The Journey Museum which traces the geology of the Black Hills and tells the story of the people who inhabited these lands. The Journey features four museums including the Sioux Indian Museum. Then stop at the Black Hills Gold Factory. Tonight's special Farewell Dinner is at the K-Bar S Ranch nestled in the beautiful Black Hills just outside Keystone. Following dinner experience Mt. Rushmore at Night to see this American treasure illuminated in a whole new light.
Meals B&D; Overnight - Rapid City
Day 7: Rapid Dity - Flight Home
Today depart from Rapid City filled with wonderful memories of your South Dakota Adventure
Meal B
Land Only Tour Rates:
$1649.00 Per Person – Double
$650.00 Single Supplement
Deposit:
Please pay deposit now to reserve your spot! We only authorize your credit card for the deposit amount at this time. We will not actually charge your card until we have contacted you for travel details and confirmed your reservation.
Balance:
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