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Home , Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park, Spearfish Canyon, The Mammoth Site

6 days, 5 nights

Thursday May 6 – Tuesday May 11, 2021

Activity Level: 3 Moderate

Air Motorcoach Rail

$2,115 per person $2,439 per person & Badlands Double occupancy Single occupancy Venture north with us to the Black Hills of and explore the amazing Badlands. See awe-inspiring National Deposit: $200 per person Insurance: $187 per person Monuments like Mt. Rushmore and , visit famous towns from the old west, see beautiful wildlife and Includes even prehistoric remains on this unforgettable • Roundtrip air transportation • Admissions & tours as tour. from Tucson to Rapid City* described Tour Highlights • All transfers & motorcoach • Baggage handling transportation • Motorcoach refreshments • National • Deadwood • Pick-up/livery service Memorial • Taxes & tips for included • Hot Springs Mammoth Site • 5 nights lodging items (except hotel • Journey • Custer housekeeping) • 9 meals • Tatanka • • Tour director, driver & local • Services of a tour director • 1880 Train guide tips • Day 4 – Mammoth Site, & Crazy Day 1 - Tucson to Rapid City Horse Memorial We fly to Rapid City and check in for our 5-night stay at We start in Hot Springs, home to . This Holiday Inn Rapid City-Rushmore Plaza. Take the afternoon features the fossils of fifty-eight woolly . Then to explore the town before a group welcome dinner. (D) travel into Custer State Park, home of the nation’s largest Day 2 – Mt. Rushmore bison herd. We have lunch at the State Game Lodge before We drive through Bear climbing aboard the park’s Jeeps Country USA Wildlife Park for a tour among the bison herd. and visit Mount Rushmore At the Crazy Horse Memorial, a National Memorial, and motorcoach takes you to the tour the Black Hills Gold base of the carving for an up- Factory to watch up-close close view of the still-in-progress, and learn the details of mountainside sculpture. (B,L) how gold jewelry is made Day 5 – Badlands Nat’l Park using the ancient process We begin the day at the Chapel in of lost-wax casting. We tour the Hills, an exact reproduction of the Journey Museum, which the famous Borgund Stave Church brings together four major of Laerdal, Norway. We stop at prehistoric and historic famed Wall Drug Store, a unique collections to tell the story of shopping emporium featuring the Western Great Plains. (B) western clothing and Native Day 3 – The 1880 Train & American pottery, and a favorite Deadwood watering hole since the 1930s. Then, This morning we board a local guide takes us through the 1880 Train of the Black Hills Central Railroad for the Badlands National Park, a uniquely beautiful geologic area spectacular mountain scenery found along the tracks, formed over millions of years by wind, rain and erosion. Later, laid in the 1880s to service the area mines. A drive through we return to Rapid City for a farewell dinner. (B,D) scenic brings us to Tatanka: Story of Day 6 - Rapid City to Tucson the Bison, which pays tribute to the North After breakfast we make our way to the airport to travel and its cultural significance. In historic Deadwood, we visit home, with the experiences of the Black Hills indelibly inked Mount Moriah Cemetery, known as “Boot Hill,” home to the on our memories. (B) graves of Old West legends like and . We have plenty of time to explore the town, see Option: Combine with the Yellowstone & Grand Teton the local street shows and have a steakhouse dinner. (B,D) National Parks Tour (p. 42) and enjoy a terrific journey, with special pricing. Contact us for more details. 40 | Pleasurebent Tours | 520-325-8839 | 800-584-6831