Black Hills Tour
Buffalo Roundup
Custer State Park
(First Monday of October)

Travel Schedule

Day One - Sunday - Travel to the Black Hills

Departure schedule to be announced - coffee, orange juice, and
muffins will be served on the bus as we travel this morning.
Lunch is on your own today at one of our travel stops.
Drive through the Badlands National Park - a region of savage erosion, where 35 million years of wind and water have created 244,000 acres of strange & beautiful landscape.
Stop at Wall Drugs to shop and browse through the stores.    
Annual chili cook-off sponsored by the Custer County Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Buffalo Roundup Arts Festival.
Check into our hotel in Deadwood.

Day Two - Monday - Roundup at Custer State Park

Breakfast is included this morning at the hotel. 
Each fall the wild west returns to Custer State Park during the annual Buffalo Roundup.  Park staff, cowboys and cowgirls saddle up to move the park's 1,500 bison to the buffalo corrals. The roundup serves several purposes. The first is to move the entire herd into a system of corrals along the Wildlife Loop Road. Once in the corrals, the animals are sorted by the park's resource personnel. Most are released back into the park, while others remain in the corrals until the November auction. All calves are branded and the female calves are vaccinated for brucellosis. The annual Buffalo Roundup is an important part of the park's resource management program.
Lunch is on your own this afternoon before we return to Deadwood.
City tour of Deadwood including the Homestake Gold Mine, the Mining Museum, Mount Moriah Cemetery - grave sites of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, and the historic downtown area.
Tatanka Story of the Bison - This State-of-the-art Interpretive Center features a Larger-then-life bronze sculpture of 14 bison being pursued by three Native American riders plus an Authentic Lakota encampment.
Dinner and entertainment is on your own at the many casinos in downtown Deadwood.

Day Two - Tuesday - Mount Rushmore - Crazy Horse

Annual Buffalo Roundup Arts Festival. Start our morning with a pancake feed. Then enjoy on-going Western and Native American entertainment and browse the many exhibits and craft booths.
From here we are off to see Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
This massive granite sculpture memorializes four presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, & Theodore Roosevelt. 
Crazy Horse Monument - The face of Lakota leader, Crazy Horse, is emerging as the fifth granite face in the Black Hills on the world’s largest mountain carving.
Lunch is on your own at Crazy Horse Monument.
Black Hills Central Railroad - 1880 Train, with old-time steam locomotives and vintage cars.  Our travels will take us back in time and through the Black Hills back country. 
Dinner and entertainment is again on your own in Deadwood.             

Day Three - Wednesday - Start our journey home

We are checking out this morning so please put your bags out. Breakfast is included at our the hotel.                
Load the motorcoach to start our journey home.
Lunch - (on your own) at one of our rest stops today.                 

h 3 nights of hotel accommodations                          h Buffalo Roundup and Art Festival          
h 4 meals - Chili Cook Out & 3 breakfasts                 h Black Hills Central Railroad train ride
h drive through the Badlands National Park              h Park entrance fees
h tour stop at Crazy Horse Monument                       h tour of Deadwood
h tour stop at Mount Rushmore National Memorial     h tour stop at Wall Drug          
h Deluxe motorcoach transportation with restrooms, air conditioning, and video
h Professionally escorted trip, including baggage handling, and all gratuities.

Click here to see our photo page of the Buffalo Roundup
Contact us at:
Phone - 800-552-8857
ghusk@horizon-tours.com