Mount Rushmore Tours for People with Disabilities
Author: Rich Watkins
Published: 2014/12/12 - Updated: 2024/10/12
Publication Type: Informative
Category Topic: Disability Travel America - Academic Publications
Page Content: Synopsis - Introduction - Main
Synopsis: Black Hills Open-top-tours based out of Rapid City, SD, now offers year round Mount Rushmore sightseeing service for those with disabilities. When you join an Open Top Tour, you enter a story taking you back in history to the origins of the Hills, ​the people that lived here and of some of the most extraordinary landscapes on the planet.
Introduction
Using unique convertible top vans and minivan Black Hills Open-Top-Tours can tour with up to three wheelchairs or scooters at a time.
Main Content
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents:
- George Washington (1732-1799)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Black Hills Open-Top-Tours offer many destinations and tour packages including:
- Sturgis
- Deadwood
- Crazy Horse
- Sylvan Lake
- Mount Rushmore
- Needles Highway
- Iron Mountain Road
- Devils Tower Monument
- Badlands National Park
- Custer State Park Wildlife Loop
- Wine Tasting Tours and much more!

Same prices as their standard tours; they provide smaller personalized touring without ever being hurried.
Their drivers and guides are experienced, fun, and knowledgeable.
Tours include
- All fees, bottled water, snacks and some with picnic lunch.
- Black Hills Open-Top-Tours will pick you up and return you for free from any Rapid City hotel, campground or B & B.
TripAdvisor 97% Rating - Ranked #2 of 30 Activities - Certificate of Excellence 2014
Contact
- Ph. 605-644-6736 or visit www.blackhillsopentoptours.com
Mailing Address
- Black Hills Open-Top-Tours, 302 Racine St, Rapid City, SD 57701