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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
n Black Hills Visitor Information
Center, Exit 61 off I-90, Rapid City,
(605) 355-3600. ∑ blackhills
badlands.com Mount Rushmore
National Memorial: Tel (605) 574-
3165. Open 5am–9pm daily
(mid-Mar–Sep: until 11pm).
Closed Dec 25. 7 ∑ nps.gov/
moru Crazy Horse Memorial:
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Tel (605) 673-4681. Open call for
An American icon since its completion in 1941, the giant, sculpted timings. & 7 ∑ crazyhorse
heads of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore memorial.org Custer State Park:
Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln took 14 years to create. Sculptor Tel (605) 255-4515. Open call for
Deadwood
Gutzon Borglum’s studio, tools, and models are preserved on site. timings. & 7 ∑ custerstate
park.com Wind Cave National
Park: Tel (605) 745-4600.
Open 8am–4:30pm daily (longer
in summers). Closed Jan 1,
Thanksg., Dec 25. & 7 ∑ nps.
Rapid gov/wica Jewel Cave National
City Monument: Tel (605) 673-8300.
Open call for timings. Closed
Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
Presidents’ Day, Dec 25. & 7
Visitor center only. ∑ nps.gov/
jeca The Mammoth Site: Tel (605)
Hill City 745-6017. Open call for timings.
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& 7 ∑ mammothsite.com
Deadwood: ∑ deadwood.org
• Keystone Transport
• ~ Rapid City. @ Rapid City.
Mt. Rushmore
National Memorial
•
Crazy Horse
Memorial Custer State Park Key
This 71,000-acre (28,733 ha) park is
one of the region’s most pristine Custer State Park boundary
natural habitats, with towering rock
Custer • formations such as the Needles Eye, a Wind Cave NP boundary
spire rising 30–40 ft (9–12 m) high. Major road
• Custer
Jewel Cave
National Monument State Park
Wind Cave National Park
This park contains one of the
world’s longest limestone
caverns, its underground
labyrinth studded with strange,
popcorn-like formations.
Guided tours include a
Pringle • Wind Cave historical candlelight tour and
National Park
the Natural Entrance tour.

The The Mammoth Site
• Mammoth Site Discovered in 1974, this site displays the world’s
• largest concentration of Columbian mammoth fossils.
Hot Originally a spring-fed sinkhole where animals were
Springs
trapped and preserved, only 30 percent of the
26,000-year-old site has been explored so far.

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