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DAY 1-3

Colorado Springs, CO

WELCOME

• Orientation and Get Acquainted Social
• Welcome Dinner at Local Restaurant
• Pikes Peak Cog Railway – a nine-mile adventure up to the summit, 14,115 feet in altitude with sweeping 360° views
• Garden of the Gods Trading Post & Lunch – enjoy lunch with views of sandstone rock formations against the backdrop of snow-capped Pikes Peak
• OPTIONAL: Air Force Academy Visitors Center
• U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum – a one-of-a-kind tribute to the athletes with galleries, artifacts & stories
• National Museum of World War II Aviation – the only museum in the world focusing on the role of airplanes & flying in WWII

DAY 4-5

Estes Park, CO

DRIVING MILES 140

• Rocky Mountain National Park – a bus tour along the beautiful Trail Ridge Road through the Rockies with a stop at the Alpine Visitor Center
• Buffet Lunch at Lake Estes Marina – eat lunch surrounded by beautiful lake & mountain views
• Chuckwagon Supper & Western Show – a dinner show featuring authentic BBQ, live music & great humor!

DAY 6-9

Cheyenne, WY

DRIVING MILES 132

• Private Motorcoach Transportation to Activities
• Cheyenne Frontier Days Parade – enjoy the excitement of floats, marching bands, antique carriages, automobiles & horses with riders in period dress
• Cheyenne Frontier Days – a western celebration with non-stop entertainment including live music, pancake breakfasts, carnival midway, frontier town, old saloon, Native American Village & more!
• OPTIONAL: Fort D. A. Russell Days at Warren Air Force Base
• Cheyenne Historic Trolley Tour – learn about the city’s historic buildings & most interesting sites
• Behind the Chutes Tour – step into the rodeo chutes, walk across the arena & meet the animals
• Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum – learn about the world's largest outdoor rodeo & western celebration
• Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo – grab your cowboy hats and attend the world’s largest outdoor rodeo featuring bull riding, buckin’ broncs, trick riders, roping, barrel racing & more!

DAY 10-11

Gering, NE

DRIVING MILES 209

• Campground Cookout – food, fun and friends!
• OPTIONAL: Chimney Rock & Scottsbluff National Monument

DAY 12-13

Fort Robinson, NE

DRIVING MILES 96

• Fort Robinson Dinner & Hayride – a good ol’ western dinner, plus an old-fashioned hayride with beautiful views
• Fort Robinson History Center – located in the 1905 post headquarters building, view exhibits on the fort’s history featuring its role with the Red Cloud Agency & WWII German POWs
• OPTIONAL: Horse Drawn Park Tour

DAY 14-17

Hermosa, SD

DRIVING MILES 103

• Breakfast at Fort Robinson
• Private Motorcoach Transportation to Activities
• Dinner at Local Restaurant
• Mt. Rushmore Lightning Ceremony – an inspirational program with a ranger talk, a patriotic film & culminates with the lighting of the memorial
• Black Hills and Custer State Park Tour – a beautiful drive through the Black Hills, stopping in Custer State Park to enjoy the granite peaks & clear mountain waters
• Crazy Horse Memorial – a mountain monument of the Oglala Lakota war leader
• Lunch at State Game Lodge – a beautiful lodge listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• Badlands National Park Tour – a colorful desert of canyons, buttes, pinnacles, spires & fossilized species
• Wall Drug – visit this unique, roadside attraction filled with dining, activities, gifts & souvenirs
• Explore Rapid City
• Campground Cookout – food, fun and friends!

DAY 18-19

Spearfish, SD

DRIVING MILES 70

• Tatanka Story of the Bison – a museum dedicated to Native American history with cultural presentations & the 3rd largest bronze sculpture in the world
• Deadwood Historic City Tour – a narrated tour featuring the city’s highlights, while recounting tales of the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane & Potato Creek Johnny
• Mt. Moriah Cemetery – visit the resting sites of notable western figures such as Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane

DAY 20

Buffalo, WY

DRIVING MILES 200

• OPTIONAL: Devils Tower National Monument
• Steakhouse Dinner – enjoy a farm-to-table meal at an authentic, operating cattle ranch

DAY 21-22

Garryowen, MT

DRIVING MILES 99

• Little Bighorn Battlefield – visit the battlefield & national monument, plus Custer's Last Stand & the Crow’s Nest
• Historical Presentation of the Battle of Little Bighorn – learn the story of the historic battle between Custer's 7th Cavalry & Native American forces
• Lunch at Custer Battlefield

DAY 23-25

Cody, WY

DRIVING MILES 181

• Buffalo Bill Historic Museums – tour five museums to learn about Plains Indian cultures, cowboys & cowgirls, western artworks & more, plus visit Irma's Legendary Saloon
• OPTIONAL: Visit 1890's Old Trail Town
• Trolley Ride to Dinner
• Cody Cattle Company Dinner & Show – an all-you-can-eat homestyle meal with foot-stompin, hand-clappin’ family fun entertainment

DAY 26-29

Yellowstone, MT

DRIVING MILES 147

• Yellowstone IMAX Theater – a remarkable film showing the history of Yellowstone National Park
• Yellowstone Lower Loop Tour – see the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the world-famous Old Faithful geyser
• Lunch at Old Faithful
• Yellowstone Upper Loop Tour – see the Mammoth Hot Springs Mud Pots, Norris Geyser Basin & Yellowstone Falls
• Lunch at Mammoth Hot Springs
• Free Day to Explore Yellowstone National Park

DAY 30-33

Jackson Hole/Alpine, WY

DRIVING MILES 162

• Grand Teton National Park Guided Tour – visit Menors Ferry, Colter Bay, Jenny Lake, Chapel of the Transfiguration
• Lunch at Jackson Lake Lodge – a historic park lodge with breathtaking Teton views
• Private Motorcoach Transportation to Activities
• Scenic Float Trip on the Snake River – enjoy the scenery of the Grand Tetons & Jackson Hole on a relaxing 13-mile float trip
• Farewell Dinner
• Goodbye Continental Breakfast