These are some of the popular Black Hills and Badlands area attractions and activities that we can build a custom itinerary around. Please call us for or email us for more information.

Attractions & Activities

Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is host to almost three million visitors a year from across the country and around the world. They come to marvel at the majestic beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota and to learn about the birth, growth, development and the preservation of our country. Over the decades, Mount Rushmore has grown in fame as a symbol of America - a symbol of freedom and a hope for people from all cultures and backgrounds.

Crazy Horse Memorial
Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear officially started Crazy Horse Memorial June 3, 1948. The Memorial is the world's largest mountain sculpture and depicts the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse. Its mission is to honor the culture, tradition, and living heritage of the North American Indians.

Badlands National Park
Millions of years of wind, water and erosion have created the chiseled spires, deep canyons and jagged buttes of Badlands National Park. Periods of freezing and thawing have revealed millions of years of sediment that paints a colorful landscape on the prairies of southwestern South Dakota. The park contains one of the most complete Oligocene fossil assemblages and one of the largest mixed-grass prairie ecosystems in North America.

Custer State Park
Custer State Park is located in the southern Black Hills and encompasses 71,000 acres of spectacular terrain. Custer State Park is also home to a cadre of wildlife such as, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, deer, elk, wild turkeys, friendly burros and the great American bison.

Deadwood, SD
In 1876, the gold camp of Deadwood in Dakota Territory was a rough and tumble gambling town where Wild West legends were made. Discover notorious characters such as, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Seth Bullock, Potato Creek Johnny, Preacher Smith and many more that made their fortune and fame out West. Today, the entire Black Hills' town is a National Historic Landmark and is still known for its wild ways. From gold rush history to 80 historic gaming halls, Deadwood is the ideal place to release your inner outlaw.

Buffalo Jeep Safari
Feel the wind in your hair as you head out in an open top jeep in search of wildlife and scenic splendor. These guided trips will take you through rolling hills and into the backcountry while your driver tells you about the area.

Black Hills Sightseeing
With several National Scenic Byways, the Black Hills offers beautiful scenic drives for your tour group. Winding through the Ponderosa pines and around scenic mountain lakes, these roads offer many area attractions that are fun for everyone. Along the way, stop and see the granite spires knows as the Needles, enjoy the twists and turns of spiral bridges, called the Pigtail Bridges, and the tunnel views of Mount Rushmore.

Tatanka - Story of the Bison
Learn about the story of the American Buffalo and how the lives of the Native American Indians interconnected with them. This larger than life bronze sculpture features 14 bison pursued by 3 Native American riders on horseback.

Mount Moriah Cemetery and Boot Hill
In the historic mining and gambling town of Deadwood, this hill top cemetery contains the graves of Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Seth Bullock, Potato Creek Johnny, and Preacher Smith.

Devils Tower National Monument
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first national monument. Towering above the surrounding plains at 1267 feet, it is also known as Bears Lodge and is a sacred site for many American Indians. This 1347 acre park is covered with pine forests, woodlands, and grasslands. Deer, prairie dogs, and other wildlife are abundant.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
The Cold War lives on at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. The Minuteman missiles held the power to destroy civilization, yet the same destructive force acted as a nuclear deterrent which kept the peace for three decades. Learn how nuclear war came to haunt the world at the Minuteman Missile site.

The Mammoth Site
The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota is the world's largest mammoth research facility where you can tour an active paleontological dig site and view Ice Age fossils exhibited as they are found.

Mt. Rushmore Gold Jewelry Factory Tours
Take a fascinating free tour through a jewelry factory. Watch up-close and learn how Black Hills Gold jewelry is made.

Wild Horse Sanctuary
The 11,000 acre Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary is a showcase where the public can see large herds of wild horses running free and come to understand the efforts toward land conservation and the preservation of our western heritage-America's - the Wild Mustang.

Bear Country
This drive-through wildlife park is nestled over 250 acres amidst towering pines and through rolling meadows. Bear Country U.S.A. offers visitors intimate views of most North American mammals. Visitors take a leisurely three-mile drive through several enclosures and encounter black bear, elk, reindeer, deer, cougars, bobcats, rocky mountain goats, bighorn sheep, dhal sheep and buffalo.

1880 Train
Climb aboard a vintage steam train and see the Black Hills like those that helped settle the Great American West did. The locomotive offers a western experience like no other. Hear the bellow of the engine and the whine of the whistle as it winds its way through the scenic hills between Hill City and Keystone... and back again.

Needles Highway and the Iron Mountain Road
One of the most scenic drives in the Black Hills are the highways that wind between Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park. Along the way, stop and see the granite spires knows as the Needles, enjoy the twists and turns of spiral bridges, called the Pigtail Bridges, and the tunnel views of Mount Rushmore.

Wind Cave National Park
One of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features of Wind Cave National Park. The cave is well known for its outstanding display of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs.

Jewel Cave National Park
Jewel Cave is the second longest cave in the world. To date, over 145 miles of passages have been explored and surveyed, and airflow studies indicate that most of the cave has yet to be found. It is filled with calcite crystals and other wonders that make up the "jewels" of Jewel Cave National Monument.

Rushmore Cave
Rushmore Cave's one-hour guided tour winds through a series of rooms and passages. It has an extraordinarily large number of stalactites dangling from its ceilings and walls along with mighty columns, massive flowstones, and exquisite displays of ribbons and draperies.

Spearfish Canyon National Scenic Byway
The Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway, located in the northern Black Hills, is unique because the view is always close to the visitor and always upward. The narrow canyon walls rise sharply skyward from Spearfish Creek and help to highlight many of the canyon's beautiful waterfalls.

Adams Museum
The Adams Museum is Deadwood's oldest museum featuring the town's raucous history and legendary characters, including Deadwood's Wild Bill collection, pioneer and Deadwood artifacts, historic photographs and Black Hills geology exhibits.

Journey Museum
The Journey Museum takes you on an incredible trek through time, from the violent upheaval that formed the mystical Black Hills over 2.5 billion years ago to the continuing saga of the Western Frontier. When your journey is complete, you will fully understand the legacy of the land and its people.

High Plains Western Heritage Museum
The High Plains Western Heritage Center is a regional museum founded to honor the old west pioneers of the five state region. View exhibits of Western art, artifacts and memorabilia including the original Spearfish to Deadwood Stagecoach, turn-of-the-century Kitchen, Saddle Shop and a Blacksmith Shop.

Horseback riding
To really get in touch with nature and see the beauty of the world, try seeing it seated on the back of a horse. Since the invention of the car, humans seemed to have lost touch with their transportation past which centered chiefly on the horse.

Circle B Ranch Chuckwagon Supper and Cowboy Music
Sit back and enjoy a good old fashioned cowboy dinner with all the fixin's, followed by a fun cowboy show with professional musicians who entertain with their mix of music and humor.

Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was the defining image of an entire generation. It symbolized the separation of a free West Germany and a communist controlled East Germany. The wall separated light from dark, hope from fear, and freedom from oppression. Two dramatic pieces of it now reside in the shadow of one of America's most enduring national monuments, Mt. Rushmore.

Neutrino Laboratory
Dr. Ray Davis shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for the solar-neutrino detector he installed 4,850 feet underground in the Homestake gold mine in Lead, S.D. When the Homestake mine closure was announced in September of 2000, physicists recognized an opportunity. They proposed converting Homestake into the world's deepest lab.

Wine tour

Stavkirke Chapel
This is a replica of the famous 850-year-old Stave Church in Borgund, Norway, and was built by the Scandinavian community in Rapid City. The chapel includes unique wood carvings and is located in a beautiful setting. A log-cabin museum nearby contains artifacts used by the area's Scandinavian pioneers.

City of Presidents tour
One of the largest publicly-owned displays of art lines the streets of down town Rapid City. Life-sized, bronze statues of many of our nation's Presidents provide visitors a walking tour of history.

Special Events

Buffalo Round Up
Feel the thunder and join the herd at the 44th Annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup. Watch cowboys and cowgirls as they roundup and drive the herd of 1,500 buffalo into the buffalo corrals. This is the herd size number under normal rangeland conditions. The roundup is the management tool that is used to adjust the herd size accordingly.

Mt. Rushmore fireworks
Join the Mount Rushmore Independence Day Celebration on July 3, as entertainment wows the crowds as they anxiously awaited the evening's dazzling fireworks display.

Black Hills Pow Wow
The He Sapa Wacipi is an impressive cultural event held annually at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Hundreds of Native American singers and dancers converge on the Civic Center to compete for thousands of dollars in song and dance competition.

Crazy Horse Volks March
Held now for more than two decades, the annual Crazy Horse Volksmarch (an organized hike) is a 10K (6.2-mile) woodlands ramble to the world's largest mountain carving in progress.

Black Hills Heritage Festival
Entertainment, vendors and family activities pack Memorial Park at the Rapid City Civic Center. This summer make the trek to South Dakota for the Black Hills Heritage Festival. Vendors, music and a phenomenal fireworks show will all combine for a four day extravaganza of Black Hills celebration and American patriotism.