A 3 Day Trip to South Dakota & Black Hills Tour. 2020

  A 3 Day Trip to South Dakota.

  I want to invite you to visit one of the most scienic and historic areas of the United States- Black Hills.
Our first stop will be at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a leader in paleontological
excavations best known for finding the T.rexes known as Sue and Stan, even offers cast replicas of
original fossils for sale. The star of the show is "Stan", the second largest and the second most complete
T-rex skeleton ever discovered.
  In the afternoon we will see Mount Rushmore which is an impressive tribute to freedom and democracy
in America.

This awe-inspiring granite sculpture features 60-foot faces of four United States presidents
that played an integral role in the birth, expansion, development and preservation of the nation: George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. We will visit the Lincoln
Borglum Visitor Center and Museum to pressure in-depth exhibits and to watch a short film about the
carving methods used by sculptor Guzton Borglum. Get a closer look at Mount Rushmore and enjoy a
variety of viewpoints along the 0.6 miles Presidential Trail, which begins at the Grand View and loops
toward the sculpture.
  The second day will start with the visit to Bear Country where we will stay in our van (with the windows
up) and drive through an extensive forested area where many bears, elk, wolves, bighorn sheep and
other large animals run uncaged. Later we will walk around the many small animal enclosures to see
beaver, badgers, bobcats, etc. plus, of course, baby bears.

  After that, we will stop at a pretty strange place called Cosmos. You won't believe your own eyes when
you see the laws of gravity and physics reversed. Impossible to stand up straight on a level floor?
Water running uphill? Suddenly taller than your taller friends? What is going on? We've been here
many times and can't begin to explain it. A lot of fun that will leave you thinking.
In the afternoon we will experience the rugged beauty of the wild West where buffalo still thunder across
the earth and graze the open plaints and pristine lakes mirror the reflections of nearby granite peaks nad
wide-open skies. This legendary place is Custer State Park. We will drive along the 18-mile Wildlife
Loop road to see the herd of 13000 majestic bison, an animal that played a vital role in the lives of Native
Americans by providing food, clothing, and shelter. Most likely, we will see donkeys as well.
in the morning of the third day, we will visit the Crazy Horse Memorial. Imagine legendary Lakota warrior
Crazy Horse sitting tall atop his spirited horse, arm outstretched as he points to the lands of his people.
This is the image envisioned by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski in 1948 and a vision that is still being
brought to life today in the Black Hills. When complete, Crazy Horse will be the world's largest
mountain carving, standing 563 feet high and 641 feet long.

  On the way home, we will stop at the Mammoth Site in the Hot Springs, where the largest concentration
of wooly and Colombian mammoths on the planet has been unearthed since a lone tusk was discovered
in 1974.