Greater Mount Rushmore Area - Outdoor Activities

Chuckwagon Dinner and Western Music Show at Circle B Ranch - Rapid City

Circle B Ranch Chuckwagon Western Show

The Horn family is proud to put on the Circle B Ranch Chuckwagon Western Show.

If you like the outdoors and nature, you'll find plenty to do in the Mount Rushmore area.

• Circle B Ranch & Old West town. Visit the Circle B Ranch in Rapid City for a variety of outdoor activities. Take a horseback ride or a ride in an authentic horse-drawn covered wagon. Enjoy a pleasure walk along the wooden sidewalks of the Old West town. You can try your hand at panning for gold and see what treasures you can dig up. Play horseshoes and miniature golf on a nine-hole miniature golf course.

• Skiing. If skiing and snowboarding are your thing, the area has many local ski facilities during the winter months to cater to the winter outdoor enthusiast.

• Custer, SD. The town of Custer offers an array of outdoor recreational activities. Enjoy hiking, biking, fishing, golfing, picnic areas, trail rides, swimming and camping. These are all things that Custer has to offer visitors.

• Bear Country. Don't miss a visit to Bear Country, located in Rapid City. Enjoy a drive through this amazing 250-acre park. The park is home to a variety of wild animals that roam through the property. As you drive through several enclosures you will see black bears, grizzlies, elk, reindeer, deer, cougars, bobcats and many other variety of animals.

• Reptile Gardens. While in Rapid City, visit The Reptile Gardens. This attraction offers not only a vast array of reptiles and fossils for your viewing, but it also features 40 acres of landscaped grounds that are planted with over 50,000 flowering plants annually. They are also home to hundreds of reptiles and amphibians. Visit the Giant Tortoise, watch them fill up on grass and relax in their mud hole.

• Wind Cave National Park. Visit Wind Cave National Park headquartered in Hot Springs, where you will find one of the world's largest caves as well as 28,295 acres of prairie, pine forest and wildlife. The cave displays an amazing unusual cave formation called boxwork. The prairie at the park is one of the few remaining in the country and you can find bison, elk, mule, deer, coyotes and prairie dogs inhabiting the park.

• Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary. Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary is also located in Hot Springs. Visit and take a two-hour guided bus tour and view the wild Mustangs, Indian petroglyphs and the movie sets from the Ted Turner movie Crazy Horse. Chuck wagon dinners are also available.