Black Hills & Badlands: Self-Guided Driving Tour Bundle – Custer, South Dakota

EXPERIENCE

Don’t miss a thing as your favorite audio tour narrator guides you to not-to-be-missed viewpoints, along with fascinating stories, tips and directions throughout the Black Hills and Badlands. Follow the suggested itineraries, or divide the commentary and create your own half, full or multi day sightseeing trips.

Witness the variety of spectacular landscapes ranging from the prairies grassland and rock formations of the Badlands National Park, to the four presidential faces carved into Mount Rushmore, through to the mountains, canyons, and forests of the Black Hills.

Major Highlights:

• Badlands Wall
• Bridal Veil Falls
• Crazy Horse Memorial
• Custer State Park
• Custer Wildlife Loop Road
• Deadwood
• Devils Tower
• Door Trail
• Fossil Trail
• Homestake Mine – Lead
• Iron Mountain Road
• Keystone
• Minuteman Missile Visitor Center
• Mount Rushmore
• Needles Highway
• Pigtails and Tunnels
• Prairie Dog Town
• Rapid City
• Roughlock Falls
• Sylvan Lake
• Spearfish Canyon
• Wind Cave and Jewel Cave
• Yellow Mounds Overlook

Includes:

Enjoy a driving route that takes you to all the best sights and finishes with a trop at Mount Rushmore as the grand finale. Drive the Black Hill loop in the direction it was created – counter-clockwise, which means you will approach Mount Rushmore with peekaboo views through the tunnel along the winding Iron Mountain Road.

Venture to the Badlands National Park. See a landscape dominated by prairies, eroding buttes, and fascinating rock formations that created a challenging barrier for pioneers. Receive excellent viewing opportunities and some terrific hikes to enjoy, many easy short boardwalks, but also some challenging and rewarding trails.

Visit a decommissioned nuclear missile silo and see examples of how original homesteaders lived.

Follow the 19-mile Spearfish Canyon route through 1,000 foot limestone walls. This scenic route also visits what was one of the world’s richest gold mining operations at the Homestake Mine in Lead. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit Deadwood, whose earliest characters included Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.

HIGHLIGHTS

Includes 3+ road trip suggested itineraries
Gaze at Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorials
Explore rare Badlands geology
Spot wildlife in Custer State Park
Learn about the frontier past in Deadwood

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