Gingerbread House Rapid City
1602 Mt. Rushmore Road Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701-4586, United States
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Its all just rocks, but what rocks!
... This was the only indication we had anywhere, even passing the turnoff, so we queried it and were told, yest it is closed. However he told us to go down the Custer Park Wildlife drive and stop at Mt Coolidge Viewpoint, and we would get great views of both Mt R and the Needles. So we went there, and the viewpoint is closed! Could have walked it, but its 1.5 miles each way, up steep hills, so we gave up. Went along the wildlike drive, and in the fiirst half we saw ...
Change of plans, skip Yellowstone, on to Rapid Cit
... Belt Mountains (little is the key word here!) and the Lewis & Clark Natl. Forrest. After stopping for pizza, we drove into the pitch black night on a nearly deserted highway to Billings (man at the pizza place warned us to be careful of deer on that stretch of highway).
Pulled into the Billings Wal-Mart (guess we need to send Sam a thank-you note!) at 1 ...
Mount Rushmore
... troop led the crowd (about 500 people) in the Pledge of Allegiance, the park superintendent gave an introduction to the park, and presented a 20-minute video on the creation of the monument and each of the four presidents carved into the mountain's granite face. The program ended with the lighting of the monument, the singing of the national anthem, and the recognition of all active-duty servicemen/women, veterans, and ...
RAPID CITY BECOMES OUR TEMPORARY HOME
... br> We rented a car, and loaded it with what we needed to settle in for a few days and off we went to our new home. Cozy and cute, right across from a town park with Canyon Lake and Pactola River running through it. Trout fishing right across the street right in Rapid City! That is mountain living. We wanted to make sure we did not loose the food in our refridge or freezer so we packed it all and started planning how to ...
Cowboy Country and Presidents
... not a pretty place, and I was glad to hook up with I-90 so that I could speed up to 75.
We arrived at Devil's Tower by 1100, and decided to check it out. I had watched "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" many years ago, and always wondered what Devils Tower really looked like. It is easily reached about 20 miles off the highway, and I'm glad that we checked it out. The monolithic structure ...


