Stay on US 16A past the Game Lodge to Highway 87 for thrilling ride on the Needles Highway where nature has created spectaculars like the granite spires and the Needles Eye. Go south to Crazy Horse Mountain. The huge Crazy Horse visitor complex offers much for the whole family to see and do. Indian- all tribes. And, Crazy Horse is much, much more than the mountain.
Many visitors stay two hours or more seeing everything.
Then head on into Custer to see all their special attractions. At Custer you may take a short ride west to Jewel Cave. Resume the tour back through Custer east on US 16A, passing Bismark, Stockade and Legion Lakes and on past Game Lodge, a summer Whitehouse for presidents Coolidge and Eisenhower. Because it is now getting late, and you may be tired of mountain roads, stay on 16 A to Highway 36 to Highway 79, the north for a quick return to Rapid City.