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Medicine Mountain Scout Ranch 24201 Bobcat Road Custer, South Dakota 57730 Expedition: Black Hills Troop 105 Custom A4 - 5 Day Program Destinations Include: • Rushmore Tramway Adventures • 1880 Train • Rush Mountain Adventure Park • Broken Boot Gold Mine • Rushmore Cave • Reptile Gardens • Mammoth Site • Bear Country • Sylvan Lake, Needles Hwy. & Wildlife Loop • Devil’s Tower • Crazy Horse Memorial & Laser Light Show • Spearfish Canyon • Mount Rushmore • The Alpine Inn If after reading this overview, you have any questions, please contact our friendly team at 605-342-2824 or send an email to [email protected]. EXPEDITION: BLACK HILLS Key Info: Option Number A4 Tour Length Monday - Friday (5 days) Cost Per Person $525.00 (estimated price based on 2020 prices) Sunday Friday 12:00PM - 4:00PM Arrive at Medicine Mountain 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite 7:30PM Evening Flag Ceremony 7:30AM Depart Camp 7:45PM Welcome Campfire 8:30AM Mammoth Site 9:30PM SPL & Scoutmaster Cracker Barrel 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Devil’s Tower Monday 1:00PM Visit Devils Tower, Hike Tower Trail 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite 3:30PM Drive Through Spearfish Canyon 8:00AM Depart Camp Bridal Veil Falls & Spearfish Canyon 9:00AM Rushmore Tramway Adventures 5:00PM Dinner in Camp 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Rushmore Tramway Adventures Saturday 1:00PM Rush Mountain Adv. Park / Rushmore Cave 4:00AM - 9:00AM Depart Camp for Home 5:00PM Dinner in Campsite 7:00PM - 9:00PM Open Program at Camp Destinations in this Option Tuesday 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite Rushmore Tramway Adventures 8:00AM Depart Camp The chairlift carries guests smoothly back to 9:00AM Bear Country street level, or the alpine slide offers a rush 12:45PM Sack Lunch at Sylvan Lake of excitement for your return. The Alpine 1:30PM Custer State Park Needles Hwy & Wildlife Loop 5:00PM Dinner in Campsite Slide consists of two tracks, each 2000 feet 7:30PM Depart Camp in length, which you descend at your own 8:00PM Crazy Horse Memorial & Laser Light Show pace in a wheeled sled that is equipped with 11:00PM Back at Campsites a brake. Test your grit and take a speedy Wednesday slide down, or meander down in a slow and 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite easy fashion - it’s up to you! 8:00AM Depart Camp 9:00AM Broken Boot Gold Mine & Gold Panning Get a harness on, pump your courage 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Mount Rushmore up, and fly down the breathtaking 800-ft. 1:15PM Mount Rushmore & Town of Keystone 5:00PM Dinner at the Alpine Inn Zipline. Then test your nerve stepping off Thursday into mid-air on the adjacent 60-ft. Free-Fall 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite Jump Tower. 8:00AM Depart Camp 9:15AM Reptile Gardens Rush Mountain Adventure Park 1:30PM Sack Lunch in Hill City & Rushmore Cave 2:30:PM 1880 Train Ride Find a great adventure at the Black Hills’ premier 5:45PM Dinner in Campsite destination for family fun. Ride the rails and carve the turns on the Rushmore Mountain Coaster, discover the sensation of flying over mammals. Visitors take a leisurely three-mile treetops on the Soaring Eagle Zipline Ride, drive through several enclosures and encounter and test your shooting skills at the Gunslinger black bear, elk, reindeer, deer, cougars, bobcats, 7-D Interactive Ride. If you love adventure and rocky mountain goats, bighorn sheep, dall family fun, Rush Mountain Adventure Park is the sheep, pronghorn and buffalo. attraction in Keystone, South Dakota that you really can’t miss! At this “the home of the largest collection of privately owned black bear in the world”, Bear Mount Rushmore Country U.S.A. guests are guaranteed to see Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a more than they bargained for. From the comfort large-scale mountain sculpture by artist of their own car, visitors watch as these clowns Gutzon Borglum. The figures of America’s of nature frolic in a pool, climb trees and amble most prominent U.S. presidents--George across the road in front of their vehicle. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt—represent Reptile Gardens 150 years of American history. Reptile Gardens is where you’ll find the Guiness Book of World Records largest reptile zoo, 1880 Train stunning botanical gardens, tropical birds and All aboard for a 20-mile journey on a vintage orchids, beautiful minerals. Take a phot with steam train like the ones that helped settle one of our giant Aldabra tortoises or watch one the great American West. Several trips daily of our wildlife shows and meet our baby gator, between Hill City and Keystone. Enjoy unique Fluffy. shopping at our Train Depot Gift Shops and snacking at the High-Liner Snack Shoppe. Crazy Horse Memorial & Laser Light Show A mythic warrior, a famed artist, his family and Sylvan Lake a canvas composed of granite are the elements Sylvan Lake, known as the “crown jewel” of that comprise the legendary past, present and Custer State Park, is located in the Black Hills of future of the Crazy Horse Memorial. South Dakota. It presents a relaxing setting and plenty of exploring opportunties to Scouts. The Indian Museum of North America, and the adjoining Welcome Center and Native American Custer State Park Wildlife Loop Educational and Cultural Center, feature more Wildlife Loop Road travels through 18 miles than 12,000 contemporary and historic items, of open grasslands and pine-speckled hills from pre-Colombian to contemporary times. that much of the park’s wildlife calls home. The new Mountain Museum wing helps explain Depending on the day, you might see bison, the work behind the scenes, augmenting the pronghorn, whitetail and mule deer, elk, introductory “Dynamite & Dreams” movie at the coyotes, burros, prairie dogs, eagles, hawks, and Welcome Center. a variety of other birds. A medley of colorful wildflowers and prairie grasses surround the From mid-May to mid-October, the storytelling road, making for a picturesque drive. continues each night at dark with the “Legends in Light” laser-light show projected on the Bear Country mountain carving. Nestled over 200 acres amidst towering pines and along rolling meadows just eight miles Spearfish Roughlock Falls south of Rapid City, Bear Country U.S.A. offers A stunning highlight of Spearfish Canyon is visitors intimate views of most North American Roughlock Falls, widely considered one of the EXPEDITION: BLACK HILLS most beautiful locations in the Black Hills. The Located on Main Street in Hill City at the historic scenery is so beautiful that cinematographers Harney Peak Hotel. Featuring special dinner for the motion picture “Dances with Wolves” menu with European charm. Evening menu decided to shoot its final scenes here. offers fine filet mignon steaks, homemade pastries, and fine desserts. The name Roughlock Falls originates from difficulties early settlers encountered while Overview traveling through Spearfish Canyon. Wagon In 2015, the Medicine Mountain Scout Ranch & drivers would “roughlock” the wheels of their Adventure Base piloted our first Expedition: Black Hills wagons with logs or chains to keep them in program with Troop 110 from Kentucky and it was a place and slide down the slope. great success and provided their unit with a once and a lifetime experience in the Black Hills. Devil’s Tower National Monument Devil’s Tower National Monument, located near In 2016, Medicine Mountain hosted several units that Sundance, Wyoming, is a most improbable toured the Black Hills through our Expedition: Black geological rock formation, sticking up a Hills program. Our local team of experts will plan out thousand feet in the air above the surrounding a week long (Monday – Friday) adventure for your unit valley like some giant, prehistoric tree-stump. where you visit the sights and sounds on the Black Hills. Devil’s Tower was also the setting for the movie, This program is entirely customized to your unit “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Alternatively, our team can also mix and match our Broken Boot Gold Mine and Panning for Gold camp program with the Expedition: Black Hills Step into the Black Hills best underground mine program. This allows units to get a tradition summer tour and return to a time when the powerful camp experience in addition to touring the Black Hills. punch of a miner’s pick and the roaring boom Typically we see units participate in camp programming of another dynamite blast signaled the ongoing Monday through Tuesday and tour Wednesday through search for the richest veins of gold on Earth. Friday. The bottom line is that we can custom craft a week for Follow the path of ore cars deep underground your unit based upon what they want to accomplish on into the century-old shafts of the Broken Boot. their trip to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. Walk in the footsteps of thousands of faceless miners who sought their fortunes in the dark and explosive atmosphere of black powder and candlelight. Mammoth Site For centuries the bones lay buried, until discovered by chance in 1974 during excavating for a housing development, when earth moving equipment exposed South Dakota’s greatest fossil treasure. Fortunately, through the work of local citizens, the Mammoth Site was preserved. Today it is the world’s largest Columbian mammoth exhibit, and a world-renown research center for Pleistocene. The Alpine Inn What’s Included? • Medicine Mountain does have ample room for the Since this program is customized, our team will produce parking of off loading of large commercial coach a free custom itinerary based upon what your unit is buses. A number of troops choose to use this method interested in with a quote.
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