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…
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Thunderhead Underground Falls
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…
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Reptile Gardens
Reptile Gardens [caption id="attachment_22758" align="alignright" width="425"] Skink[/caption] 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…
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Adams Museum and House
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…
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Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse [caption id="attachment_22740" align="alignright" width="425"] Crazy Horse[/caption] 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…
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Custer State Park
Custer State Park [caption id="attachment_22726" align="alignright" width="425"] Custer State Park Student Trip[/caption] 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…
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Mt. Rushmore
Mt. Rushmore [caption id="attachment_22721" align="alignright" width="425"] Black Hills and Badlands Tourism Association Mt. Rushmore[/caption] 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,…
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The 8 Types of Field Trips to Think About Taking
Planning a field trip isn’t always the easiest thing to do, and we at Adventure Student Travel know this. That’s why we are here as your top tip resource, as well as your top booking agency for field trips. Below we have listed some of the absolute finest places to take your students to immerse…
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Last Minute Field Trip Ideas for Students
It's the end of March, you've been frazzled with midterms and grading projects for so many weeks that you completely forgot: it's field trip season! Your students have been working hard and it's time to pay them off with a truly unforgettable, educational, and insightful field trip to end the year, but where to? And…
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Last Minute Educational Trips
Adventure Student Travel is known for an overwhelmingly popular service: educational trip planning. We do everything from daylong field trips in close by cities to week long subject themed adventures across the country. We can send your 2nd-grade science class to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, or we can send your Drama Club…
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