The Mount Rushmore and So Much More Tour

The #1 tour in all of South Dakota is a Day Long Tour" and your total tour hours depend on your pickup location. We recommend staying as close to Mount Rushmore as possible.

Our daily tour begins at Mount Rushmore! We drop you off at the front steps to this magnificent National Memorial, so you can wander for over an hour under the spectacular 60-foot high granite faces and tour the Visitor Center with theatres and museum.

Next we travel the exciting Iron Mountain Road, with 314 curves, two divided highways, three wooden spiral bridges, and three granite carved tunnels! What a fun highway! (weather permitting Oct. thru May of next year)

Our next stop is the amazing Custer State Park! A 71,000 acre wildlife preserve! But first a stop at the historic Custer State Park Game Lodge, built in 1922 and the vacation home (Summer White House) for Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Dwight D. Eisenhower! The Lodge offers you an awesome all-you-can-eat gourmet buffet with buffalo stew! After lunch we go on the beautiful wildlife loop looking for buffalo (Bison) antelope, deer, prairie dogs and other animals. How exciting it is to have 2,000 pound buffalo and baby buffalo and many more, right next to your tour vehicle!

Next we take you on the scenic and amazing Needles Highway, where you will see spectacular spires of pegmatite granite, called “The Needles”, rising hundreds of feet up to the skyline! Also you will experience scenic overlooks, narrow dynamite-blasted tunnels and the beautiful, idyllic Sylvan Lake where part of the movie, “National Treasure 2, Book of Secrets” was filmed!

​Next we go to the amazing Crazy Horse Memorial — the world’s largest mountain carving in progress! There you will have time to visit the incredible Native American Museum filled with Native American art and artifacts, a wonderful orientation film, the artist’s studio, the log cabin home he built by hand in the winter of 1947, and so much more!

Then it is time to take you home, with memories, information, stories, and even a few old jokes told by our experienced, knowledgeable, friendly and fun tour guides! We go “Above and Beyond” to make your day…”tour-rific”!