Lakota Path

Jewel Cave NM is the second longest cave in the world. Tour the cave with a ranger to see the calcite crystals and other wonders that make up the "jewels". The current length of Jewel Cave is: 143.11 miles.

Little Bighorn NM - memorializes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their way of life. Here in 1876, 263 soldiers and attached personnel of the U.S. Army, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer, met death at the hands of several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.

Devils Tower - President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed it as the

1st National Monument in 1906. Once hidden, erosion has revealed Devils Tower which rises 1267 feet above the Belle Fourche River. It is a sacred site for many American Indians, also known as Bears Lodge.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial - is most famous for the faces of the four presidents carved on the mountain, and a beautiful site to see at sunrise, sunset or for the daily lighting ceremony. 

Custer State Park - located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the park is home to a variety of wildlife and magnificent scenery. Nearly 1,500 buffalo roam the prairies and hills, which they share with pronghorn, elk, mountain goats and burros. Slender granite formations called "Needles" dominate the skyline. Swim in Sylvan Lake, where scenes from National Treasure 2 – Book of Secrets was filmed. 

The Black Hills - granite peaks and forested mountains dominate the skyline of western South Dakota. America's oldest mountains rose above the surrounding flatlands 60 million years ago and even after eons of erosion their granite peaks still soar as high as 7,242ft.

Badlands NP - contains the world’s richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, 37-28 million years old,.Horse and rhinoceros fossils are found in sharply eroded buttes. Scramble over the badlands formations.

Rocky Mountain NP - with elevations ranging from 8,000 ft. in the wet, grassy valleys to 14,259 ft. at the weather-ravaged top of Longs Peak. Go sledding and have a snowball fight in August in an alpine meadow off Trail Ridge Road. 

Join us and explore our National Parks on an American Wanderer Adventure.