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Days of ‘76 Museum  For a more purely educational experience in Deadwood, a popular historic city within the Black Hills area, head to the Days of ‘76 Museum. This iconic Deadwood museum was created to honor the city’s first pioneers, the brave ‘prospectors, miners, muleskinners, and madams’ that flocked to the city in 1876 in…

Alpine Inn For a delicious down-home meal in the Black Hills head to the historic Alpine Inn, a small lodging resort with a big history, well known for its dining experience in particular. This eatery has a German influence in its dishes, offering such things as schnitzel, smoked bratwurst, spaetzle, and strudel. These items are…

Rushmore Cave and Adventure Park  Before or after your visit to iconic Mt. Rushmore be sure to save some time for Rushmore Cave and Adventure Park. This cave experience and amusement park all in one allows you and your student group to explore, learn, and have tons of fun all in the same spot, practically…

Thunderhead Underground Falls If you are looking for something truly unique and truly awe-inspiring during your trip you should certainly make time to stop at Thunderhead Underground Falls, the ‘roaring spectacle’ sitting 600 feet within a mountain. The fall itself sitting at 30 feet tall, the water flowing out the wall and then back along…

Reptile Gardens See. Learn. Laugh. That’s the motto of Reptile Gardens, the fun and educational place to take your group on your way to Mt. Rushmore (6 miles south of Rapid City). This Black Hills hidden gem was first created in 1937, a true ‘exotic wonderland and garden oasis’ all in one. Spend your time…

Adams Museum and House Welcome to the Adams Museum and House, an educational Deadwood sight that allows your group to travel back in time and see what life was like for one of the area’s first founders. In 1892 Horns and Anna Franklin decided to settle into Deadwood, making their home a Victorian, Queen Anne…

Crazy Horse  Massive, meticulous, and miraculously unfinished, Crazy Horse Monument is an international delight for visitors looking for Native American education and architecture/art. Still under construction, this Black Hills (Custer County) gem was created by Korczak Ziolkowski, after a formal invitation by local Lakota Chief, Henry Standing Bear. The monument began with construction in 1948,…

Custer State Park Custer State Park is one of the most visited sites within the Black Hills/ Badlands area, a wildlife reserve that is both the largest and the first state park in South Dakota. Sitting on a whopping 71,000 acres, or 110 square miles, Custer State Park provides guests with ‘clear mountain waters and…

Mt. Rushmore  Mt. Rushmore is a true American classic site to see, a National Monument featuring a massive sculpture within the Black Hills region. The granite faces of some of our most recognizable and respected presidents will be an awe-inspiring and unforgettable experience, the sheer height of each face quite frankly astounding. Construction on the…

Discover St. Louis Tours Is your group looking for a fun and easy way to see the major sites, smells, and sounds of St. Louis? Well, how about letting us a book a Discover St. Louis tour for you, a truly ‘fun and educational tour company’ that stands out from most others by ‘focusing on…

Imo’s Pizza For a true Italian meets St. Louis culinary delight take your group to Imo’s, a pizza parlor franchise that began, and still thrives immensely, here in St. Louis. The pizza you will find here is the ‘original St. Louis style pizza’, a thin, crispy, Provel-topped masterpiece that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else….