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Mount Rushmore and Black Hills Tour with Two Meals and a Music Variety Show

Mount Rushmore and Black Hills Tour with Two Meals and a Music Variety Show

Overview

Mount Rushmore Tours is the longest operating local family owned and operated tour company in the Black Hills. Started in 1973 and still under the same owner, we are widely regarded as the local experts in the bus tours for Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills.

City: Rapid City

Mon 21 Oct

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Starting at $135.38

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Mon 21 Oct

Starting at $135.38

Make a reservation

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What's Included

This Tour package includes the Chuckwagon Supper and Show that evening.

Air-conditioned vehicle

Restroom on board

Includes the All You Can Eat cowboy breakfast in the morning.

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

What To Expect

Fort Hays Old West Town and Dinner Show

The tour package starts at Fort Hays Chuckwagon where you get your all you can eat cowboy breakfast. Nothing better than home made cowboy pancakes, biscuits and gravy, sausage links with a hot cup of coffee to get the day started.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

The bus departs at 9am and heads for Mount Rushmore! You will have a little over an hour to look around at your own convenience and enjoy the sites and beauty that you came to South Dakota for. We stop here first because Mount Rushmore is at it's best in the morning sun. Gutzon Borglum carved this mountain facing east towards the morning sun and intended it to be viewed this way.

Iron Mountain Road

After leaving Mount Rushmore we will travel along the Iron Mountain Road. A beautiful 17 mile road of breath taking scenery featuring 3 one lane tunnels that perfectly frame Mount Rushmore.

Custer State Park Resort

We stop for lunch inside Custer State Park at the Game Lodge and previous summer White House for president Calvin Coolidge. Try the Buffalo Stew, it's the best you will ever find!

Needles Highway

After lunch we depart for the Needles Hwy. This 14 mile scenic drive is sure to leave you breathless and awe struck at amazing beauty of the Black Hills. Sit back and enjoy the ride and watch the crowd gather around when we drive the bus through the Needles Eye Tunnel. With only inches to spare on each side of the bus you can relish in the fact that you are not the one driving.

Sylvan Lake

Take a rest stop and coffee break at the beautiful Sylvan Lake. This is among the crown jewels of Custer State Park and the beauty within it.

Crazy Horse Memorial

We spend about an hour at Crazy Horse Memorial. You are on your own to spend this time enjoying this piece of history in the making. Upon completion it will be the largest mountain carving in the world! Truly a piece of awe inspiring history being worked on every day.

Fort Hays Old West Town and Dinner Show

The tour package ends back at Fort Hays to include the Chuckwagon Supper and Live Music Show. This chuckwagon meal is sure to leave you with a full belly. The show is a Branson style variety show to include music for all ages to enjoy. Rate the best family entertainment in the Black Hills.

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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (431)

Jill S

Jul 2018

My family took the full day Mount Rushmore tour. It was worth every penny. Our day started off with breakfast and finished with a chuckwagon dinner show. Our tour bus driver, Dave, provided us with a lot of information about the Black Hills area including the sites that we saw while we were on the trip. We paid extra to have our picture taken at Mount Rushmore and when I booked our trip, I also paid for our lunch at Custer State Park. The sites that we saw were very good and I felt like the time spent at each attraction was sufficient. Dave told us that if everyone got back to the bus a few minutes early that we would have time to take a side trip. Our group was very good and we were able to go on part of the wildlife loop at Custer State Park. We saw a huge herd of buffalo. All in all, it was a very nice trip. By taking the tour and allowing someone else to drive, you are able to take in all of the sites plus learn about the area too. Highly recommended.

Response from Host

Sep 2018

Sounds like you had a great time! Thanks for stopping by!

Damon D

Jul 2018

During this trip to the Black Hills, we wanted to revisit the highlights. Mount Rushmore Tours answered the call completely! We booked the full day beginning with a hearty, delicious cowboy breakfast. We enjoyed a comprehensive tour of the area and several attractions. Our driver, Rory, is a self-proclaimed amateur historian both of the area and the Cheyenne Native Americans. He continually provided supplemental information on the monuments, roadside attractions and many of the landmarks along the way! The Fort Hays town was charming and the Chuckwagon Dinner and show was top notch! They could charge more for this experience and it would still remain a tremendous value!

Response from Host

Sep 2018

Sounds like you had a great time! Thanks for stopping by!

Deborah S

Jun 2018

We (my son and I) had the best time on this tour. It is an all day excursion on a bus that picks you up from Fort Hays--where they have some of the sets from Dances With Wolves and a nice museum type area that has a lot of stills/props and a video running about the movie and the making of it. Tour price includes tour, breakfast and lunch along with admissions into the National and State Parks you will be going through. I love being in the Black Hills to begin with and this tour just made it super fun. We bough the all day tour so we started out with breakfast at Fort Hays which was pretty good, and we are kind of food snobs so we're pretty choosy. They had biscuits/gravy, sausages, all you can eat pancakes and coffee and also lemonade and orange juice for those that don't drink coffee. There was a pianist as well during breakfast who played old timey songs like you'd find in an old west saloon. After breakfast it's fun to walk around the little boardwalk along the shops/areas gift shop type area and just relaxed a bit. The bus picked us and everyone else on our tour (we had a full bus) just outside the chowhall and we were off. We had Pastor Bill as our guide and he was nothing short of a riot! I've never had so much fun on a tour before. He was so much fun to listen to, and he gave a lot of information about the Black Hills and the areas were were going through. The fact that he was able to get an 8 foot wide bus through an 8'4" wide tunnel causing no damage to either the bus or the tunnel still amazes me. We drove through the mountains with stops at Mt Rushmore, a lunch stop at the State Game Lodge (buffet, not bad and is an add on charge) and at Sylvan Lake. Mount Rushmore was as majestic as always and not too terribly crowded. The State Game Lodge was as one would expect, it looks like a large old hunting lodge. Sylvan lake was beautiful and peaceful. It's at the base of Harney Peak--which is a monster climb when you have asthma. We have climbed that mountain before but not on this trip, it's a lovely hike up though. The drive through Custer State Park didn't bring out many animals but they are finicky. We did see some buffalo, pronghorn and a nice but very curious mountain goat that stopped to watch us try to navigate the almost un-navigable tunnel. At the end of the day, after all the sight seeing we ended with a chuckwagon dinner and a cowboy show. Excellent entertainment and food was really good. We'd do this again if we ever get back to the Black Hills.