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South Dakota Nature and History Trail in Six Days

May 30, 2022 Leave a Comment

People always ask us how we manage to do so many things when we travel into an area. The answer? Tom puts together detailed (but flexible) itineraries. If something falls through, he has 3 alternatives. Plus we are always on the move. This is a sample itinerary based on our trip to South Dakota. …

Filed Under: Deadwood, Dining, Featured-Trips, Highlighted Itinerary, Hotels, Itineraries, Itineraries, Mount Rushmore, Mountains, Nature & Hiking, Rapid City, Wyoming Tagged With: itinerary, South Dakota, Wyoming

Deadwood Day-tripping

June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

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You can find interesting places to visit in all directions from Deadwood: To the south are the Black Hills, Custer State Park, one National Park and two National Monuments. As we discussed in our blogs on the Black Hills (our August 10 blog) and Mount Rushmore (our August 17 blog), this takes significantly more than […]

Filed Under: Cities, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing, South Dakota, Wyoming Tagged With: Deadwood, Devil's Tower, South Dakota, Wyoming

Deadwood: Legend and Reality in the Town that Gambling Built, and Rebuilt

June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

DW - Main St (2)

Deadwood South Dakota is a beautifully restored National Historic Site. It is fun, historically fascinating and located in the beautifully scenic and activity-rich Black Hills (see our August 10 blog) and within easy driving distance of a number of interesting day-trips (in our August 31 blog). It is also a place of legend, and of a […]

Filed Under: Cities, Featured-City, South Dakota Tagged With: Deadwood, history, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monuments

June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

Mt Rushmore (2)

Two sources of inspiration and perseverance by two very different artists, treating very different people, all of whom are integral to the nation’s history. Gutzon Borglum was the driving force behind Mount Rushmore, while Korczak Ziolkowski was the one behind the neighboring, still in-progress Crazy Horse Monument. Although both were intensely visionaries and sculptors, they were very […]

Filed Under: Art, Mount Rushmore, National Parks, Sightseeing, South Dakota Tagged With: art, Black Hills, South Dakota

The Beauty and Variety of South Dakota’s Black Hills

June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Black Hills tourism all began with Colonel George Armstrong Custer (yes, that Custer—as in massacre). While the Black Hills had been designated an Indian reservation by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, Custer’s regiment, which was conducting a survey of the area, discovered gold. While he wired notice of the find to superiors in a […]

Filed Under: Featured-Trips, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing, South Dakota Tagged With: Black Hills, cave, mountains, South Dakota

A Day Trip to South Dakota’s Badlands National Park

June 20, 2022 Leave a Comment

We began our Badland South Dakota tour in Wall South Dakota, just north of the park’s Pinnacles entrance. The town, as you see on billboards every few hundred feet on the 55 mile drive from Rapid City, is dominated by the Wall Drug store. Once upon a time, it began life as a small-town drug store. […]

Filed Under: Featured-Trips, Itineraries, Itineraries, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing, South Dakota, Wall Tagged With: Badlands, National Parks, South Dakota

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