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DAY 1

Rapid City, SD

WELCOME

• Orientation and Get Acquainted Social
• Private Motorcoach Transportation to Activities
• Welcome 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

DAY 2

Rapid City, SD

CUSTER STATE PARK

• Custer State Park Tour – a beautiful drive through the Black Hills, stopping in Custer State Park to enjoy the granite peaks & clear mountain waters
• Sylvan Lake
• Crazy Horse Memorial Tour & Lunch – a mountain monument of the Oglala Lakota war leader
• State Game Lodge stopping at Peter Norbeck Outdoor Education Center to watch a short presentation.

DAY 3

Rapid City, SD

1880S TRAIN

• 1880s Train Ride--Trains follow the original route of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad laid down in the late 1880s to service the mines and mills between Hill City and Keystone.
• Explore Hill City
• OPTIONAL: Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame, experience a famous "Biker Bar" such as Loud American Roadhouse, Full Throttle or Ironhorse Saloon

DAY 4

Rapid City, SD

WALL DRUG

• 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

DAY 5

Rapid City, SD

GOLD FACTORY

• Gold Factory Shopping--learn about the fascinating and intricate process with which the gold and diamond jewelry is crafted.
• Chapel In the Hills Tour-- The Stavkirke Chapel is an exact reproduction of the famous Borgund Stavkirke of Laerdal, Norway.
• Explore Deadwood – free time to explore the old stompin' grounds of legendary Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane & Potato Creek Johnny
• Ft. Hayes Chuckwagon Dinner and Show

DAY 6

Rapid City, SD

FAREWELL DINNER

• Tour Mammoth Site--boasts the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths in the world.
• Lunch at Local Restaurant
• Wind Cave National Park Drive--Bison, elk, and other wildlife roam the rolling prairie grasslands and forested hillsides of one of America's oldest national parks.
• Travel through Custer and Hill Country
• Tour Bear Country--observe black bears, elk, mountain lions, buffalo, reindeer and other wildlife in their natural environment.
• Farewell Dinner at Local Restaurant

DAY 7

Rapid City, SD

DEPART

• Goodbye Continental Breakfast – grab some food and coffee before we part ways
• Continue your wild west adventure at the Calgary Stampede Rally, just 854 miles away!