Medicine Mountain Scout Ranch 24201 Bobcat Road Custer, 57730

Expedition: Option A4 - 5 Day Program

Destinations Include: • Rushmore Tramway Adventures • • Rush Mountain Adventure Park • 1880 Train • • Broken Boot Gold Mine • Peak (Formerly Harney Peak) • Adams Museum • Sylvan Lake • Devil’s Tower • Memorial & Laser Light Show • 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 $500.00 (estimated - Call for exact pricing)

Sunday Friday 12:00PM - 4:00PM Arrive at Medicine Mountain 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite 7:30PM Evening Flag Ceremony 8:00AM Depart Camp 7:45PM Welcome Campfire 10:30AM Devil’s Tower National Monument 9:30PM SPL & Scoutmaster Cracker Barrel 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Devil’s Tower Monday 5:00PM Dinner at The Alpine Inn 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite Saturday 8:00AM Depart Camp 4:00AM - 9:00AM Depart Camp for Home 9:00AM Rushmore Tramway Adventures 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Rushmore Tramway Adventures Destinations in this Option 1:00PM Rush Mountain Adv. Park / Rushmore Cave 5:00PM Dinner in Campsite Rushmore Tramway Adventures 7:00PM - 9:00PM Open Program at Camp The chairlift carries guests smoothly back to Tuesday street level, or the alpine slide offers a rush 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite of excitement for your return. The Alpine 8:00AM Depart Camp 9:00AM Slide consists of two tracks, each 2000 feet 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Black Elk Peak in length, which you descend at your own 2:30PM Sylvan Lake pace in a wheeled sled that is equipped with 5:00PM Dinner in Campsite a brake. Test your grit and take a speedy 7:30PM Depart Camp slide down, or meander down in a slow and 8:00PM & Laser Light Show easy fashion - it’s up to you! 11:00PM Back at Campsites Wednesday Get a harness on, pump your courage 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite up, and fly down the breathtaking 800-ft. 8:00AM Depart Camp 9:00AM Mount Rushmore Zipline. Then test your nerve stepping off 12:00PM Sack Lunch at Mount Rushmore into mid-air on the adjacent 60-ft. Free-Fall 1:15PM 1880 Train Jump Tower. 5:00PM Dinner in Campsite Thursday Rush Mountain Adventure Park 6:45AM Breakfast in Campsite & Rushmore Cave 8:00AM Depart Camp Find a great adventure at the Black Hills’ premier 10:30AM Broken Boot Gold Mine and Gold Panning destination for family fun. Ride the rails and 12:00PM Sack Lunch in Deadwood carve the turns on the Rushmore Mountain 1:00PM Adam’s Museum Coaster, discover the sensation of flying over 5:00PM Dinner in Campsite treetops on the Soaring Eagle Zipline Ride, and test your shooting skills at the Gunslinger from pre-Colombian to contemporary times. 7-D Interactive Ride. If you love adventure and The new Mountain Museum wing helps explain family fun, Rush Mountain Adventure Park is the the work behind the scenes, augmenting the attraction in Keystone, South Dakota that you introductory “Dynamite & Dreams” movie at the really can’t miss! Welcome Center.

Mount Rushmore From mid-May to mid-October, the storytelling Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a continues each night at dark with the “Legends large-scale mountain sculpture by artist in Light” laser-light show projected on the . The figures of America’s mountain carving. most prominent U.S. presidents--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Devil’s Tower National Monument Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt—represent Devil’s Tower National Monument, located near 150 years of American history. Sundance, , is a most improbable geological rock formation, sticking up a 1880 Train thousand feet in the air above the surrounding All aboard for a 20-mile journey on a vintage valley like some giant, prehistoric tree-stump. steam train like the ones that helped settle Devil’s Tower was also the setting for the movie, the great American West. Several trips daily “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” between Hill City and Keystone. Enjoy unique shopping at our Train Depot Gift Shops and Broken Boot Gold Mine and Panning for Gold snacking at the High-Liner Snack Shoppe. Step into the Black Hills best underground mine tour and return to a time when the powerful Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak) punch of a miner’s pick and the roaring boom Black Elk Peak is the highest natural point of another dynamite blast signaled the ongoing in South Dakota. It is the highest point east search for the richest veins of gold on Earth. of the Rockies and west of the Pyrenees mountain range in Europe. It lies in the Black Follow the path of ore cars deep underground Elk Wilderness area, in southern Pennington into the century-old shafts of the Broken Boot. County, in the Black Hills National Forest. Walk in the footsteps of thousands of faceless miners who sought their fortunes in the dark Sylvan Lake and explosive atmosphere of black powder and Sylvan Lake, known as the “crown jewel” of candlelight. , is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It presents a relaxing setting and Adams Museum plenty of exploring opportunties to Scouts. The Adams Museum is the Black Hills’ oldest history museum. In 1930 pioneer businessman Crazy Horse Memorial & Laser Light Show W.E. Adams founded the Adams Museum in A mythic warrior, a famed artist, his family and downtown Deadwood with the purpose of a canvas composed of granite are the elements preserving and displaying the history of the that comprise the legendary past, present and Black Hills. future of the Crazy Horse Memorial. The Adams Museum is home to some of the The Indian Museum of North America, and the Black Hills’ greatest treasures including Potato adjoining Welcome Center and Native American Creek Johnny’s gold nugget, beloved American Educational and Cultural Center, feature more illustrator N.C. Wyeth’s pencil sketch drawing of than 12,000 contemporary and historic items, Western legend , the mysterious EXPEDITION: BLACK HILLS

Thoen Stone record of the Ezra Kind party’s What’s Does Your Group Need To Provide discovery of gold in the Hills in the 1830s and a The Expedition group must have its own transportation one-of-a-kind plesiosaur (marine reptile). and 1 seat to accommodate your expedition guide.

The Alpine Inn • Transportation can be arranged for larger Located on Main Street in Hill City at the historic groups of over 30+ and the fee can be added to your Harney Peak Hotel. Featuring special dinner registration. menu with European charm. Evening menu offers fine filet mignon steaks, homemade What Can We Do? pastries, and fine desserts. The options are limitless on what your unit can do! Since everything is custom planned, we have a high level Overview of flexibility. Here is a sample list of the most popular In 2015, the Medicine Mountain Scout Ranch & places to see in the Black Hills. Adventure Base piloted our first Expedition: Black Hills program with Troop 110 from Kentucky and it was a • Mammoth Site great success and provided their unit with a once and a • Wind Cave lifetime experience in the Black Hills. • Evan’s Plunge • Crazy Horse Memorial In 2016, Medicine Mountain hosted several units that • Crazy Horse Memorial Laser Light Show toured the Black Hills through our Expedition: Black • Minuteman Missile Silo & Historical Site Hills program. Our local team of experts will plan out • Harney/Black Elk Peak a week long (Monday – Friday) adventure for your unit • Mount Rushmore where you visit the sights and sounds on the Black Hills. • Mount Rushmore Evening Lighting This program is entirely customized to your unit • South Dakota Air & Space Museum • Sylvan Lake Alternatively, our team can also mix and match our • Devil’s Tower camp program with the Expedition: Black Hills • Custer State Park program. This allows units to get a tradition summer • 1880’s Train camp experience in addition to touring the Black Hills. • Keystone, SD Typically we see units participate in camp programming • Bear Country USA Monday through Tuesday and tour Wednesday through • Watiki Indoor Waterpark Friday. • Bear Mountain Fire Outlook Tower The bottom line is that we can custom craft a week for • Downtown Rapid City your unit based upon what they want to accomplish on • Custer, SD their trip to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. • • The Journey Museum What’s Included? • Since this program is customized, our team will produce • DC Booth Fish Hatchery a free custom itinerary based upon what your unit is • interested in with a quote. The quote will include: • Deadwood, SD • Cosmos Mystery Area • 17 Meals • Founding Fathers • 6 Nights at Medicine Mountain • A Personal Tour Guide • Admission to all Attractions & Locations • Insurance • Trip Planning Support • Camp Patch Getting to Camp Booking Steps The Expedition: Black Hills program is based out of the 1. Call our team at 605-342-2824 or send an email to Medicine Mountain Scout Ranch & Adventure Base [email protected] to let us know that located at: your unit is interested in this program. 2. Let out team know what itinerary number your unit 24201 Bobcat Road is considering. Your unit can change the itinerary if Custer, South Dakota 57730 they are looking to swap out different attractions or change up the days. Please note that the estimated It is the responsibility of the unit to arrange their travel price per person could change. to and from Medicine Mountain. At this time, our team 3. After finalizing the itinerary and price per person, does not arrange or serve as a booking agent for travel an online reservation will be created and prices will to and from Medicine Mountain. However, we have be adjusted to match your approved itinerary. A some general tips and knowledge to pass along from our deposit is due within 10 days of your reservation personal experience with traveling to South Dakota. being created. The deposit is $10 per youth and $5 per adult. • It can be expensive to fly into Rapid City, SD (RAP). 4. The Expedition: Black Hills program is applicable It is the closest commercial airport to Medicine to all policies listed in the Administration Section of Mountain being one hour away. our Leader’s Guide. That guide can be obtained at • Budget airlines such as Allegiant fly into the Sioux www.camp.blackhillsbsa.org under “Summer Camp.” Falls Regional Airport and could provide cheaper 5. The unit and/or individuals will be able to log into travel from various destinations. the reservation online to make payment and to input • Most units opt to fly into the Denver International participant information. Airport, which is six hours away from Medicine 6. Once paid in full, you are ready for your Expedition Mountain. Transportation can be provided by our in the wonderful Black Hills of South Dakota. transportation group for an additional fee, however it may be cheaper to rent vehicles depending on the amount of people. • Medicine Mountain does have ample room for the parking of off loading of large commercial coach buses. A number of troops choose to use this method to get to an from Medicine Mountain. • Our team can arrange for special hotel rates for the drivers of commercial coach buses if your unit is looking for the bus to remain in the Black Hills for the week.