Sunday, June 3, 2012

Mount Rushmore Road Trip

We took a family vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota... Clark Griswald style.  We road tripped it about 10 hours and stayed several days in a cabin and took in the sites.  We had such a great time as a little family.
Mount Rushmore
Sylvan lake- so beautiful
Big Horn sheep
We made a trip to Bear Country USA- so fun- Claire LOVED the animals

Wolves- right next to the car- kinda scary


That is a bear asleep in the tree



Mountain Lions- also asleep in the tree

Claire bear lookin at the baby bears





 We next traveled to Custer State park and saw... more animals- a little bit more wild though than Bear County...
Buffalo- we bought Claire a stuffed one and its her favorite!

Really friendly donkeys.  They use to be pack animals to take travelers around the park but were set free a number of years ago- now they just are a wild pack that try to eat food out of your car

Needles Highway- crazy cool rock tunnels

We also visited the Badlands.  Really beautiful.  It reminded me of the Grand Canyon

Mountain Goats- Big momma and her babies



We visited the Crazy Horse Memorial- still in progress

We rode the 1880 train- it took us through the mountains.   It was relaxing and fun




Wall Drug- apparently its a big deal.  It was advertised for about 300 miles




3 comments:

VisitRapidCity said...

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Cody, Melissa, Trinitee and Austin said...

How cute your little family is Kelli! Adorbs!

MayerFamily said...

looks like a fun trip!