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Santa Ana College Community Services Program Presents.... BLACK HILLS & BADLANDS SINGLE-HOTEL STAY FEATURING MT. RUSHMORE, BADLANDS, CUSTER STATE PARK & CRAZY HORSE AUGUST 23-28, 2013 ~ 6 DAY TOUR Via TOUR PACE ACTIVITY LEVEL Leisurely On the Go Low High ~DAY BY DAY ITINERARY~ Embark on a journey highlighting some of the West’s DAY 2 ~ BLACK HILLS, MT. RUSHMORE TOUR HIGHLIGHTS most famous sites and monuments. Wonder at the Following an included breakfast at our hotel, Visit Mount Rushmore National Memorial magnificent Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse memo- we’ll join our local guide for sightseeing that Visit Wall Drug and Badlands National Park rials. Enjoy the Wild West atmosphere of Deadwood, will include many of the most well-known and Visit the Crazy Horse Memorial – eventually and marvel at the spectacular landscape at Badlands well-liked highlights of the area. A visit to the to be the largest statue in the world National Park. All-the-while, unpack once and Journey Museum takes you on an incredible enjoy a single-hotel stay in the heart of Rapid City. trek through time, from the violent upheaval Visit Custer State Park for a buffalo safari jeep that formed the mystical Black Hills over 2.5 ride and dinner at the State Game Lodge billion years ago to the continuing saga of the Ride on a steam train through the Black Hills Western Frontier. When your journey is com- Guided tours of the Black Hills Mining plete, you will fully understand the legacy of Museum and Black Hills Gold Factory the land and its people. Following, we travel to Visit Deadwood –the historic mining town Mount Rushmore National Memorial and set our eyes a thousand feet up where you’ll see four FINE HOTELS / GREAT LOCATIONS presidential faces carved into solid granite stone. Take a stroll along the Presidential Trail for Night 1-5 Adoba Eco (formerly Radisson) more intimate views of the 60-foot faces. The Rapid City, South Dakota Custer State Park Buffalo Safari Visitor Center and Museum houses photos and artifacts related to the Memorial. The “Avenue TOUR INCLUSIONS DAY 1 ~ ARRIVE RAPID CITY of Flags” features flags of all fifty states and U.S. Start with optional transfers from home or our 5 Nights deluxe hotel accommodations territories and leads to the Grandview Terrace – departure points this morning to LAX for our the Memorial’s main viewing area. This after- 8 Meals – 3 dinners, 5 breakfasts flight to Rapid City, South Dakota. Our deluxe noon, visit the delightful Bear Country USA, Services of a professional tour director motorcoach will be waiting and shortly we’ll be a drive-through wildlife park where you will see Comprehensive sightseeing with a local guide off on a driving tour of the city with our local wildlife up-close. As you drive through several guide including the Presidential statues down- Sightseeing and admissions per itinerary enclosures we’ll see black bear, elk, reindeer, cou- town, Skyline Drive and Dinosaur Hill. Meet Roundtrip airport-hotel transfers (with pur- gars, bighorn sheep and buffalo. Next, a visit your fellow travelers this evening at the Flying T chase of group air) to the Chapel in the Hills – a replica of the fa- Chuckwagon Western Show and Supper. Enjoy mous 850-year-old Stavkirke in Borgund, Nor- Transportation on a deluxe motorcoach a hearty western meal with all the trimmings way. Upon arrival, you’ll be met by hostesses in Luggage handling throughout the tour followed by entertainment of old time music Norwegian costumes and have an opportunity to Applicable taxes, fees and most gratuities including cowboy ballads, country swing and create your own memories of one of Rapid City’s bluegrass favorites. This evening, we check in to most photographed landmarks. This evening is PER PERSON PRICES our Rapid City hotel for a relaxing five night stay. free for you to unwind and prepare for a full day Rapid City serves as our gateway as we make our Double $1,299 / Single $1,659 Deposit $250 of sightseeing tomorrow. (Breakfast) way to some of America’s most fascinating sights Roundtrip group airfare available from $595 p.p. over the next few days. Your hotel is centrally- Travel Protection Plan – see reverse located in the heart of Rapid City near a variety of restaurants. (Dinner) Mount Rushmore DAY 3 ~ BLACK HILLS, DEADWOOD After an included breakfast this morning at our Maximum elevation on this tour is 6,000 feet. South Dakota’s Black Hills hotel, we join our local guide and turn-back the RESERVATIONS clock to Dakota territorial days as we take a ride of granite spires, ponderosa pines, and alpine aboard an 1880s steam train from Hill City to lakes, Custer State Park is the jewel in South Santa Ana College Keystone. This vintage steam train will ramble Dakota’s crown. At the Park, board a jeep for a Community Services Program through Black Hills back-country and climb buffalo “safari”. Get an up-close view of some of 1530 W. 17th St., Room S-201 several “I-think-I-can” grades. After time for the Park’s 1,400 free-roaming buffalo, as well as Santa Ana, CA 92706 lunch and browsing in Keystone we continue possible sightings of elk, wild burros, and golden on to the mile-high town of Lead and take a eagles. An included dinner at the Historic State Phone (714) 564-6594 guided tour of the Black Hills Mining Mu- Game Lodge – the summer White House for www.sac.edu/community/services seum. The museum’s experienced and knowl- Calvin Coolidge. Return to Rapid City this Tour operated by Good Times Travel edgeable guides will lead you on a fascinating evening. (Breakfast, Dinner) California Seller of Travel License #: 2018390-40 and informative tour of a simulated under- ground gold mine. Get a comprehensive look PAYMENT INFORMATION at early-day and modern underground mining Deposit due at time of booking to the address in the Black Hills. This afternoon, visit Tatan- above (Good Times Travel will contact you for ka, “Story of the Bison,” and experience the the travel protection and air option) richness of the Lakota people and Plains Indian buffalo culture. Next, we travel to the Old West Good Times Travel will invoice you for the town of Deadwood – the historic mining town balance payment 6-8 weeks prior and focus of the hit HBO series by the same name. Here on “Boot Hill”, Wild Bill Hickok TRAVEL PROTECTION / CANCELLATION Crazy Horse Memorial played his last hand of poker – with aces and Travel protection/cancellation insurance is eights, which have been known since as the DAY 5 ~ BADLANDS NAT'L PARK highly recommended for all multi-day tours. If “dead man’s hand.” Enjoy time at leisure and an Following an included breakfast this morning, travel protection has not been purchased, only included dinner in Deadwood, prior to return- we join our local guide and begin the day with recoverable funds less a cancellation charge of ing to Rapid City. (Breakfast, Dinner) a visit to the Prairie Edge Gallery of Lakota $50 will be reimbursed once payment has been Indian art and culture. We then set out for made. Amount of reimbursement depends on another much anticipated part of our tour, the date of cancellation. Badlands National Park. First we stop in Wall If travel protection has been purchased and you and visit the Wall Drug Store – famous for their must cancel prior to departure or leave the tour “Free Ice Water.” Time at your leisure to explore enroute for a reason approved by the insurance this fascinating complex of shops, art galleries, company, you will receive a full refund (or par- and restaurants. This afternoon, as we drive into tial if enroute), minus the cost of the premium. the plains where the landscape changes from Other benefits of travel protection include rolling grassland to ragged ridges, ravaged gul- medical expenses for illness and injury, emer- lies, spires, and knobs formed over the ages by 1880s Steam Train to Hill City gency transportation, and lost/stolen/damaged wind and water erosion. Welcome to Badlands luggage. Pre-existing medical conditions are DAY 4 ~ CRAZY HORSE, CUSTER PARK National Park – a study in contrast of nature’s only covered if protection is purchased at the Following an included breakfast at the hotel, chaos and wild beauty. We’ll take advantage of time of deposit. See travel protection plan for this morning we are joined by our local guide several photo opportunities and visit the Visitors full details and exclusions. and head for a guided tour of the Black Hills Center in the Park before returning to Rapid Gold Factory. Rapid City is where eight dif- City with the balance of the evening at your DEPARTURE INFORMATION ferent jewelry manufacturing companies create leisure. (Breakfast) Roundtrip airport transfers are available as follows: the world’s supply of Black Hills Gold Jewelry. At this factory you will see how the jewelry is From one of our departure points: $69 p.p. created and have an opportunity to purchase a Fountain Valley - Good Times Travel office “reminder” of your visit to the Black Hills. After Long Beach - City College - Lot “O” time at leisure for lunch in Hill City, we visit From home: $159 and higher (contact us for quote) the Crazy Horse Memorial – the sculpture and museum dedicated to the spirit of the fearless Exact departure times are provided 2 weeks prior Sioux Indian Chief Crazy Horse, whose fame is derived from the Battle of Little Bighorn. The SINGLE SHARE PROGRAM face, now complete, is 88 feet high.