Mount Rushmore Family Vacations

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Mount Rushmore (PhotoDisc)
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Mount Rushmore Family Highlights

By Travel Expert: Candyce H. Stapen
  • Admire the massive carvings of presidential faces on Mount Rushmore
  • Tour what will be the largest mountain carving in the world when completed, the Crazy Horse Memorial
  • Learn Great Plains history and the Lakota myth at the Journey Museum
  • Take a jeep safari through grasslands at Custer State Park, where the buffalo roam
  • Hike among fantastical pinnacles, cones, peaks, and canyons at Badlands National Park
  • Explore two of the U.S.'s longest caves, Wind Cave and Jewel Cave

Mount Rushmore Overview

By Travel Expert: Candyce H. Stapen

South Dakota makes for an intriguing family vacation, offering a fun-filled combination of natural beauty, unusual geological features, and distinct Native American and Westward Expansion heritage.

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Hotels

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ROOSEVELT INN OF KEYSTONE
206 OLD CEMETERY ROAD
KEYSTONE, SD
Hotel Class: 2 class stars
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Elk Ridge Bed and Breakfast
12741 Matthew Ct.
Keystone, SD 57751
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The Lodge at Palmer Gulch
12620 Hwy 244
Hill City, SD 57745
Hotel Class: 3 class stars
Distance: 6.1 Miles
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
southwestern South Dakota, 100 miles from Badlands National Park
Keystone, South Dakota 57751 Map
Distance: 2.3 Miles (from destination center)
Description: Four presidential faces carved from a mountain, considered one of the wonders of the world -- go for the nightly lighting ceremony.... Read More
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Bear Country USA
13820 S. Hwy. 16
Rapid City, South Dakota 57702
Distance: 4.9 Miles (from destination center)
Description: Spy black bear, elk, cougars, and buffalo from... Read More
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