September 14th, 2019

This cost for us will be $132 a person for the long tour, park entry fees, and 2 meals.

This normal package tour of $104 would include 2 meals, Breakfast and Supper,

BUT that price does not include the mid-day lunch stop at the State Game Lodge, which you would pay or separately.

So to make things way easier, I've had the lunch price added in.

That normal tour (as you can see below) requires normal tourists (with their own transportation) to be at Fort Hays by 7:30am for breakfast.

That would mean that we would have to leave the hotel by 7-7:15am.

However, I felt that since the banquet and auction was the night before, you might rather have the choice of sleeping in and extra hour (if needed) and/or

taking advantage of the $10 a day per person voucher which the hotel gives you for the on-site restaurant, which is supposedly open 24/7.

That way, instead of boarding the bus at 7-7:15am, it would most likely be 8:15am.

So instead of the tour bus(s) leaving Fort Hays at 9:00am, I can have them pick us up at the hotel and leave on the tour by 8:45am.

They should have us back to the hotel by 9:00pm after the Fort Hays dinner/show. (LONG DAY)

blackhillsbadlands.com - fort-hays-dinner-show

mountrushmoretours.com - fort-hays-old-west-town-square - Dances With Wolves Film Set

Mount Rushmore Tour - Itinerary ‎‎(ours)‎‎

Here is the whole virtual tour route on Google Maps..... <CLICK HERE>

Printable tour map.......................................................... <CLICK HERE>

These two little videos will show you just a glimpse of what you should experience as we go through the Needles Hwy Tunnel.....

Youtube - Bus Scrapes Through Tunnel on Needles Highway Youtube - Charter Bus in Rock Tunnel

Some other cool videos......

Youtube - Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway Pigtail Bridges

Youtube - The Beauty of the Black Hills

Youtube - The Tour - Mt. Rushmore, Custer SP & the Black Hills of SD (not our exact tour route, but similar)

Crazy Horse Memorial bigger than Mount Rushmore (2:28)

Crazy Horse - One family's quest for a Native American tribute (8:00)

Below is our tour schedule......