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7 Days • 10 Meals BLACK HILLS & BADLANDS
BLACK HILLS & BADLANDS
7 Days • 10 Meals
August 13 - 19, 2025 - Guaranteed Departure
August 13 - 19, 2025 Guaranteed Departure
Activity Level
Activity Level 3: Moderately Active Pace - Active walking daily, some hiking, uneven terrain, hills, and steps. Less rest options available. Active sightseeing, early starts, evening activities, and significant travel times possible.
Activity Level
Activity Level 3: Moderately Active Pace - Active walking daily, some hiking, uneven terrain, hills, and steps. Less rest options available. Active sightseeing, early starts, evening activities, and significant travel times possible.
Tour Highlights & Inclusions
  • Round Trip Home Pick-up*
  • Round Trip Airfare
  • 10 Meals: 6-Breakfasts, 4-Dinners
  • K-Bar S Ranch Dinner
  • State Game Lodge Dinner
  • Mt. Rushmore by Day & Night
  • Crazy Horse Memorial
  • Custer State Park Buffalo Jeep
  • Devil’s Tower National Monument
  • Historic Deadwood & the Black Hills
  • The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs
  • Badlands National Park
  • Dances with Wolves Movie Set & Chuckwagon Supper & Show
  • 1880 Steam Train & The Journey Museum
  • Black Hills Gold Factory
  • Professional Tour Manager
  • Hotel Transfers & Baggage at Hotel
Accommodations
  • Rapid City (6 nights) - Holiday Inn Rapid City Downtown
Alternate hotel may be used

*Please see Terms & Conditions
Departures & Prices

Prices for this departure date:
$3299 per person double
$3269 per person triple
$4149 single

Prices above are from
SAN / LAX / SFO / DFW / IAH
PHX / LAS / SEA / PDX / DEN / SLC

Cash Early Booking Savings
SAVE $100 - First 1-20 Clients
SAVE $75 - 21-40 Clients
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Single Supplement Savings
The first TWO Singles to book, SAVE 50% off the Single Supplement

Additional Airports & Prices
$3,299 pp Double  LAX / SAN / SFO
$3,299 pp Double  IAH / DFW / PHX / LAS
$3,299 pp Double  SEA / PDX / DEN / SLC
+$100  SAT / AUS / ABQ / IND / CVG
+$100  SNA / SMF / OAK / SJC
+$200  ONT / PSP
Singles +$850 / Triple (in 2 Beds) -$30
Land Only   $2,549

Contact us for prices from other airports.

Daily Itinerary
Day 1 - Wednesday, 8/13/2025 - Dinner
Arrive in Rapid City
Today arrive in Rapid City, South Dakota. Enjoy a Welcome Dinner with your traveling companions.
Day 2 - Thursday, 8/14/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner
Mt. Rushmore / Crazy Horse
This morning visit Mt. Rushmore (altitude 5,200') featuring the awesome sculptures of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Each face is 60 feet high and is carved into the rugged granite mountainside with intricate perfection. Continue on to Crazy Horse Memorial, still in progress. View the giant mountainside sculpture of the famous Chief astride his pony. This afternoon visit Custer State Park, famous as a wildlife preserve featuring a herd of 1,500 free roaming buffalo. Experience a thrilling Buffalo Jeep Safari in search of some 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 including Presidents Coolidge and Eisenhower.
Day 3 - Friday, 8/15/2025 - Breakfast
Devil's Tower / Deadwood
Journey west into Wyoming to visit Devil’s Tower National Monument. View the 867 foot monolith, then return east into South Dakota to visit historic Deadwood, the 1876 rough and tumble gold camp and gambling town where Wild West legends were made 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.
Day 4 - Saturday, 8/16/2025 - Breakfast
Mammoth Site
Hot  Springs,  the  museum  has  the  greatest  concentration  of  mammoth  remains  in the  world. Beginning in 1974, and as of  2016, the  remains  of  61  mammoths   including   58   North   American   Columbian  and  3  Woolly  mammoths  had  been  recovered. Next  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. Enjoy the remainder of the day at your own pace.
Day 5 - Sunday, 8/17/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner
Badlands / Fort Hays
Today visit and drive through Badlands National Park, located between the White and Cheyenne Rivers. See spectacular examples of weathering, erosion, fantastic ridges, cliffs and canyons of variegated color. Later explore the unusual and well-known Wall Drug Store, famous for its “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. Later at the same location enjoy a fun filled Chuckwagon Supper & Cowboy Show.
Day 6 - Monday, 8/18/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner
1880 Steam Train / Mt. Rushmore at Night
Coach to Hill City to explore Main Street and board the 1880 Train, an authentic narrow gauge railroad dating back to the Black Hills Gold Rush. Then stop at a Black Hills Gold Factory. Tonight’s special Farewell Dinner is at K-Bar S Ranch nestled in the beautiful Black Hills. Tonight, experience Mt. Rushmore at Night to see this American treasure illuminated in a whole new light.
Day 7 - Tuesday, 8/19/2025 - Breakfast
Fly Home
Transfer to the Rapid City airport and fly home.

Note: This tour involves high altitude.

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