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Tourists in The Black Hills

A travel blog entry by ecks-adventures

... the road as we left the park - always exciting to see these huge animals in their wild element.

Then we drove back to RC via Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse Mtn, and the historic town of Keystone at the base of Mt. Rushmore. Having been to Rushmore & Crazy Horse previously, we just made a quick photo stop for our blog. The Crazy Horse mountain carving will eventually show him on his horse - but it's ...

Bighorn National Forest (Rocky Mount Sister Range)

A travel blog entry by srhodes

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... Through a pass? Around them?

Soon we are entering a passage way that winds us through the mountains. Rock cliffs and rock dunes are high on both sides of the road and they are beautiful!! I am snapping the camera as quickly as I can to capture this. I am thinking I should be taking a video. Driving through this narrow mountain passage way, with mountains on both sides of us, is so breathtaking. I ...

Free Denver

A travel blog entry by g7s22

... we choose to visit Dino Ridge in nearby Morrison. Dino Ridge is described as being one of the only places where you can touch actual fossils still in the mountain. So we planned on enjoying a refreshing hike as well as learning all we could about our prehistoric friends.

After arriving, we picked up our free $5 guide book and departed up the “trail”, i.e. paved road for the ...

Its all just rocks, but what rocks!

A travel blog entry by argieuk

This is a top pick!

... and the broken promises that were made to them, their culture etc, Korczak's (the sculpture) house and other works and loads of things. I thought we would spend a short while there, but it could have easily absorbed a lot longer than we gave it. However, its been going for about 50 years so far, and one has to wonder whether it will ever get finished!

We were going to go on to the Needles Eye , but we saw a sign in the restrooms saying that eedles Highway ...

Day 4 - Presidents, Harleys, Dead Cowboys & B1's

A travel blog entry by cusan

... seriously, what other shop could you find a bassoon to hang on a Christmas tree? The woman who served us didn’t even know what a bassoon was!

We then drove into the mining town of Lead for another Subway lunch. The whole town is centred around an old opencast mine opened in the 1800’s. It’s like a dry warm version of the Rhondda valleys.

From there we visited the nearby town of Deadwood, home to Calamity Jane. I’d really been looking ...