North Central USA
Tetons, Yellowstone, The Dakotas, Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, House on the Rock, Wisconsin Dells, Mall of America
Tues., Sept. 1-Wed., Sept. 16, 2009
The Grand Tetons
Includes: 16 days, 15 nights lodging; including 1 night at Canyon Lodge in Yellowstone National Park, 26 meals: 1 full breakfast, 14 cont. breakfasts, 4 lunches, 7 dinners, tour House on the Rock, Spring Green, WI, Wisconsin Dells Boat Tour on the Upper Dells, Wisconsin Opry, free afternoon and evening at the Mall of America, guided tour of Minneapolis-St. Paul; including Metrodome, skyway network, Kenwood residential area, historic Summitt Avenue, Rice Park, Ordway Music Hall, Minnehaha Falls, and the downtown area, tour Chateau de Mores State Historic Site, Medora, ND, drive the 36-mile scenic loop in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the North Dakota Badlands, with a visit to the Medora Visitor Center and Roosevelt’s first cabin from the Maltese Cross Ranch, visit Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument; scene of Custer’s “last stand,” free evening in Jackson Hole, WY, tour the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, see Old Faithful, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY; featuring the Buffalo Bill Museum, Winchester Arms Museum, Whitney Gallery of Art, Plains Indian Museum and the Draper Museum of Natural History, Trolley Tour to Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center and tour of Cody, visit Old Trail Town; reconstructed on the site of Old Cody City, see the Dan Miller Cowboy Music Revue (formerly on TNN in Nashville, TN), free evening in Cody, travel across the Big Horn Mountains, visit Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming (weather permitting), drive the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Highway, Spearfish, SD, travel on into the Black Hills of South Dakota and visit Keystone, a mining town established in 1894 and take the 1880 Train ride to Hill City, visit Mount Rushmore, see the Crazy Horse Monument and Legends of Light Laser Show, visit famous Wall Drug, Wall, SD, travel thru the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, visit the Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD, visit Falls Park in Sioux Falls, SD; overlooking the Big Sioux River, tour the Patee House Museum, St. Joseph, MO, featuring a collection of western lore, personal items of Jesse James, memorabilia of the Pony Express, plus lots more, tour the home of Jesse James, visit the Arabia Steamboat Museum, Kansas City, MO, tour the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, MO, coach transportation. Depart 6am.
$2569. per person double occ. $2379. per person triple, $2239. per person quad,
$3239. single. $100. deposit per person to reserve your seat. 2nd deposit of $300.