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Bear Country U.S.A.

Enjoy a leisurely 3-mile drive through this spectacular and unique wildlife park nestled on 250 acres of the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. After your drive through tour, walk through our Wildlife Center where young and smaller animals frolic in their outdoor exhibits. www.bearcountryusa.com

Black Hills Caverns

Offers three different tours. Guides are well trained, experienced and friendly. Tours leave approximately every twenty minutes. Also available is a gift and rock shop offering beautiful gift selections, fine jewelry and souvenirs; snack bar featuring fresh coffee, popcorn and snacks; free museum features specimens of cave and geological formations and fossils; picnic area and relaxed seating available; convenient bus and RV parking; Welcome Center with free coffee, free maps and information. www.blackhillscaverns.com

Black Hills Passion Play

During the summer season performances in Spearfish, South Dakota are given at 8 p.m. every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday during June, July and August. The passion play reconstructs the dramatic events of the last week of Christ's earthly life, eloquently portraying the love and fury of a people two thousand years ago. www.theblackhillspassionplay.com/

Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary

Over 300 wild horses run free across endless prairies, hooves striking thunder, manes and tail flying in the wind…imagine. www.wildmustangs.com

Crazy Horse

The Crazy Horse project has three goals: 1) the mountain carving, 2) establishment of the Indian Museum of North America and 3) development of the North American Indian University and Medical Training Center. Crazy Horse is open year-round. An admission fee is charged per car (buses at group rates). www.crazyhorse.org

Custer State Park

Located in the southern Black Hills, the park comprises 73,000 acres and is the habitat of one of the world's largest free- roaming bison herds, numbering about 1,500. Other large mammals living in the park include elk, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelopes, mountain goats and deer. Although wildlife sightings are not a certainty, visitors are likely to meet the park's resident "begging burros, II donkeys with a tendency to approach cars looking for handouts. Visitors are allowed to feed the burros, so bring fruits, vegetables or cereal and grain products; burro food is not sold in the park. Three scenic drives traverse the area: Needles Highway/SR 87 winds 14 miles through tunnels and spruce and pine forests, passing the granite towers that give the road its name. The 18-mile Wildlife Loop circles grasslands and pine studded hills. Iron Mountain Road (US 16A) passes through the park's scenic northeast corner between Mt. Rushmore and Hermosa. The road passes through three 12-foot-6-inch by 13-foot-6-inch tunnels; two may be bypassed. www.custerstatepark.info/custersp.htm

D.C. Booth Historic Fish Hatchery

Established in 1896, the former trout hatchery building has been restored and contains displays relating to its operating history. Also on the site are the National Fish Culture Hall of Fame, an underwater fish-viewing area and the 1905 home of the hatchery's first superintendent, which is furnished in period. www.DCBooth.fws.gov

Devils Tower National Monument

Located in northeastern Wyoming, the tower, a huge monolith resembling a colossal stone tree stump, rises 867 feet from its base and 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River. About a half-mile from the entrance is a prairie dog colony. Ranger naturalists conduct summer interpretive walks and climbing demonstrations. The Tower Trail, marked to identify plants and rocks, encircles Devils Tower. Climbing on the tower is permitted, but climbers must sign in before and after expeditions. www.nps.gov/deto

South Dakota Air and Space Museum

South Dakota's only Air and Space Museum featuring the 3/5 scale of the Honda Stealth Bomber Model...and 22 other vintage aircraft...Admission is free. Memorabilia includes General Eisenhower's personal Mitchell B-25 bomber, along with fighters, bombers, cargo and utility aircraft. Home of the 28th Bomb Wing and the 99th Wing, a graduate level crew training unit. Tours are available by museum bus 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily mid-May to mid-September. Nominal charge. Tour includes a look at the B-1B Bomber, base Flightline and a stop at the museum's restoration hanger to view work in progress on vintage aircraft. www.blackhillsattractions.com/pages/attractions/sdairspace.html

Spirit of the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary

The Sanctuary was established to provide a safe haven for birds and animals. It also offers visitors the opportunity to experience nature in its own beautiful setting. Capture the animals and landscape with cameras and enjoy a horse-drawn wagon ride. If you enjoy riding, experience their new ecotrail rides. If it's wildlife rehabilitation that interests you, come and see what can and is being done for the birds of prey. www.wildlifesanctuary.net/sanct.html

Storybook Island

Features: 6.75 acre park, 128 fairy tale sets, live animals, children's theatre, special events, birthday house, food concessions and gift shop. Open Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. www.storybookisland.org

The 1880 Train

Open mid-May to early-October. Reservations recommended. For reservations or more information please call (605) 574-2222. www.1880train.com

The Journey Museum

The Journey Museum brings together four major prehistoric and historic collection to tell the complete story of the Western Great Plains. 1) The Museum of Geology contains displays of significant scientific discoveries made by geologist and paleontologist, including the unique rock formations and rare fossilized remains found throughout this region. 2) The Archaeological Research Center houses collection from thousands of archaeological sites, including materials from excavations conducted at dozens of prehistoric and historic digs all over South Dakota. 3) The Sioux Indian Museum devotes its exhibitions to the past and present creative achievements of American Indian and Alaskan Native artists and crafts people. 4) The Minnilusa Pioneer Museum features a wide ranging permanent collection of objects and artifact which focus on the regions frontier past and those individuals who played an important role in it. Open seven days a week. Admission (605) 394-6923. www.journeymuseum.org/english

The Mammoth Site

The only in situ (bones left as found) display of fossil mammoths in America, making it important to scientists, fascinating to visitors, and an educational experience for everyone. www.mammothsite.com

Wonderland Cave

Tours leave approximately every 15 minutes. The temperature is always a pleasant 47 degrees, so remember a sweater or light coat. Open seven days a week from May 1 to November 1. www.southdakotacaves.com/wonderland_cave.htm

Reptile Gardens

Are you ready to go wild? Then you're ready for Reptile Gardens. This is where you'll find the world's most renowned collection of exotic reptiles, as well as rare birds, beautiful minerals, prehistoric fossils and botanical specimens.

Wind Cave National Park

One of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features of the park. The Wind Cave National Park is well known for its outstanding display of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs. The park's mixed-grass prairie is one of the few remaining and is home to native wildlife such as bison, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes, and prairie dogs. Scheduled, ranger-led tours of Wind Cave are offered all year, and fees are charged. Three cave tours are available.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The sheer size of the mountain carving on Mount Rushmore evokes a sense of awe in those who view it. We are also amazed when we see ourselves in the faces of the presidents. The four presidents carved in stone represent all Americans. They represent our courage, dreams, freedom and greatness.

The birth of our nation was guided by the vision and courage of George Washington. Thomas Jefferson always had dreams of a greater, more perfect nation, first in the words of the Declaration of Independence and later in the expansion of our nation through the Louisiana Purchase. Preservation of the union was paramount to Abraham Lincoln, a nation where all men were free and equal. At the turn of the Twentieth Century Theodore Roosevelt envisioned a great nation, a leader on the world stage, our nation was changing from a rural republic to a world power. The ideals of these presidents laid a foundation for the United States of America as solid as the rock from which their figures were carved.

Each president possessed great skills and leadership of the brand our nation needed for the times they represent. We all can look into their faces and gain inspiration and strength from these four great men and ourselves.

Beautiful Rushmore Cave

When visiting the Black Hills, see Beautiful Rushmore Cave. It is the area's largest stalactite cave and the closest cave to Mt. Rushmore National Monument. The one hour tour winds through a series of rooms and passages, the most stunning of which is the BIG ROOM. This legendary room contains thousands of stalactites, stalagmites, ribbons, helecites, columns and other breathtaking cave formations.