Arrive To: Check in at the K Bar S Lodge after 3:00 PM. There is an orientation beginning at 5:00 PM at the Lodge. Schedule your arrival time allowing about 45min travel time from the airport to the K Bar S Lodge.

Dinner: K Bars S Lodge

Evening: Free evening to get settled into your room.

Lodging: K Bar S Lodge

Meals Included: Dinner

Custer State Park / Horseback Trail Ride / Crazy Horse Memorial / Mount Rushmore Scaling Program

Breakfast: K Bar S Lodge

Morning: We kick off our week of adventure with a morning field trip to Custer State Park. General Custer's expedition discovered gold here in 1874, and that began the rush of settlers to the Black Hills. We'll stop at the Peter Norbeck Visitor Center where we'll get a close up look at the Park's history, mysteries, landscapes and wildlife that combine to create this diverse and beautiful park. Next we'll take what we've learned and travel the Wildlife Loop road in search of buffalo, wild burrows, prairie dogs, elk, white tail deer and more. At the end of the loop, put on your cowboy hat for a fun filled hour long horseback trail ride.

Lunch: Blue Bell Lodge

Afternoon: In an effort to honor the rich heritage and traditions of Native Americans, Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear set out to carve a mountain just south of Mount Rushmore that began in 1948. Today, the Crazy Horse Memorial campus offers visitors breath-taking views of the ongoing carving from its viewing veranda. The campus also includes an Indian Museum of North America, gift shop, welcome center, and Native American Cultural Center.

Dinner: K Bar S Lodge

Evening: Learn through a hands-on activity about the scaling and creation of Mount Rushmore.

Lodging: K Bar S Lodge

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Mount Rushmore National Memorial / President's Tram and Alpine Slide / Outdoor Campus / Native American Dancer

Breakfast: K Bar S Lodge

Morning: High in the Black Hills on a cliff of solid granite are the faces of four of our country's Presidents. Each had a special place in the establishment, exploration, preservation and development of our nation. This special place is Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Explore this magnificent Memorial and learn how and why this incredible carving was made. Those able to handle a significant number of stairs will want to visit the Sculptor's Studio to see the plaster models used by Gutzon Borglum to guide his gigantic carving. Next, discover Mount Rushmore from a different angle as you ride a chair lift up to the top of a ridge. Enjoy the view as well as the ride back down on the lift or take the option of feeling the wind in your hair as you ride the alpine slide, at your own desired pace, back down the hill.

Lunch: K Bar S Lodge

Afternoon: This afternoon travel to the Outdoor Campus and learn about the importance of South Dakota's wildlife, ecosystems and habitats through hands-on exhibits and activities.

Dinner: K Bar S Lodge

Evening: Tonight's instructor will captivate us with oral stories and traditional Native American dance.

Lodging: K Bar S Lodge

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Badlands National Park / Gold Panning / Buffalo Box Presentation / Campfire

Breakfast: K Bar S Lodge

Morning: Today,discover a land of extremes. Learn how a once subtropical paradise, complete with exotic sea creatures and dinosaurs, evolved into the desolate Badlands of today. At first glance this moon-like terrain may seem inhospitable but, look closely and you'll discover the secrets of life that lie with-in.

Lunch: Lunch is on your own at the famous Wall Drug.

Afternoon: This afternoon obtain a new appreciation for those who blazed the trail of gold discovery decades before. Try your hand at imitating the miners from long ago by panning for gold, minerals and special gem stones.

Dinner: K Bar S Lodge

Evening: The evening will once again be an opportunity to learn about this fascinating land with a hands on buffalo box presentation. Enjoy a group campfire later in the evening - weather permitting.

Lodging: K Bar S Lodge

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Mammoth Site / Junior Paleo Dig / Swim in a Natural Warm Water Spring / Final Banquet.

Breakfast: K Bar S Lodge

Morning: This morning adventure awaits you! Travel back in time when Ice Age mammoths, camels, and giant short-faced bears roamed the Great Plains of North America. More than 26,000 years ago a sudden collapse of a sinkhole, with a warm spring percolating from the bottom, filled the sinkhole and created an ideal watering hole for animals to quench their thirst. Unfortunately the sinkhole proved to be too slippery and steep for the animals to retreat, thus creating a death trap for large Columbian and Woolly Mammoths. Investigate this historic event by visiting the world's largest Columbian Mammoth exhibit and research center for Pleistocene studies and become a Junior Paleontologist as you help dig for signs of prehistoric life.

Lunch: Woolly's Family Restaurant

Afternoon: This afternoon immerse yourself in the natural warm springs of Evans Plunge. Don't forget to pack your swimming suit and towel for this fun afternoon of relaxing in the warm spring pools. Water slides add a little thrill for those young at heart!

Dinner: Final banquet at the K Bar S Lodge

Lodging: K Bar S Lodge

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast at the K Bar S Lodge is included. Hotel check-out at 11 AM.

Meals Included: Breakfast