Just remember that once you are on the tour you are stuck. The Black Hills, Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse. Let's be clear: the area the tour bus takes you to is unbelievably gorgeous. We took the tour at the end of the season and enjoyed letting someone else do the driving while we looked. If you are doing it during the tourist season you will want to travel the back roads in a tour bus and not drive them yourself. If you are considering a trip to the Black Hills please consider taking this tour. Even when the weather didn't cooperate, Matt made the tour very worthwhile and informative. Because we took the tour at the end of September after the buffalo roundup he took to the area where they had rounded up the buffalo. ![]() This is why we took a bus tour in the first place, you find out the back story of the area not just what you read on the signs. Matt Pates was first a very good driver, great story teller and extremely knowledgeable about the area. Our driver looked like he just stepped out of a western. Here you eat like a cowboy on tin plates. If you don't like pancakes, sausage, and good biscuits and gravy with coffee and juice stop at Perkins. Earl and his wife cook up a mean breakfast. If you left there hungry it is your own fault. Before we got on the bus they served us a cowboy breakfast. At first the thought of 9 hours on a bus was depressing but we took the tour. ![]() When we planned our trip to the Black Hills we looked into taking a bus tour of the area.
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