Foothills Inn Rapid City

Travel Blogs from Rapid City

Finding Americana On I-90

A travel blog entry by huizarst

I wanted to post some pictures from my travels on 9/22. Today I traveled from the Wisconsin Dells, WI to Rapid City, SD. Over 720 miles! This is going to be a very short blog as I am headed to bed, but will update it very soon. Major highlights today included Great Bluff State Park (MN), Spam Museum (Austin, MN), The Jolly Green Giant Statue (Blue …

Water Park!

A travel blog entry by brian.day

... and they were unloading 4 buses full of people! So we went across the street to pirates cove mini golfing. Which I kicked everybody's butt at, kind of. But I got the most hole in 1's (2) but we weren't keeping score because Noah gets frustrated. after a round of mini golf we walked back across the street to eat dinner. They has a chocolate fountain, and it was really good. All in all I had a really fun day. -Lily ...

Day 3

A travel blog entry by bruce.sallie

Up early, eating breakfast at the Ramada and off to church. Then we were off to sightsee. We traveled to the north of Rapid City today. We stopped by Sturgis, then off to Deadwood. We ate lunch at Kevin Costner's restaurant and casino. We watched a "pretend shootout" where and how Wild ...

Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse.

A travel blog entry by avalonakasha

Today was AWSOME!!!

We drove up into the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota, and every time we turned a corner and saw a funny shaped cliff face we got all excited. We were looking out for our first glimpse of Mt Rushmore. Eventually it came. It's such a weird feeling when you have seen something on TV or in books a gazillion times, and suddenly you come face to face with the real thing. It's one of my favourite ...

Custer State Park

A travel blog entry by catndeano

3rd Aug.

Up early from a noisy early awakening by the workers next door at 5.30am! After breakfast around 8am we headed off towards the village of Keystone and then up the hill from there to Mount Rushmore. The site itself is free to get in, but the company that runs the car park charge $11, but that's the only way in so you gotta pay! I have to say it's worth it though as it's a truely remarkable feet of engineering and so interesting to find out how it ...