TOURS
All tours depart from White River Deli on Second
Street in Crawford, NE
Half Day Tour :
Full Day Tours :
Reserve your choice and date
All tours depart from White River Deli on Second
Street in Crawford, NE
Half Day Tour :
- Badlands -Trailside Museum.
- Pasture 27 Oglala National Grasslands
- Toadstool Park
- Hudson Meng-Bison Site
- Dutch Lunch (optional) at Cook Shack
- Rock Collecting
Full Day Tours :
Reserve your choice and date
- Platte Valley: Oregon Trail, Chimney
Rock, Scott’s Bluff Monument, Fort
Laramie, and Agate Springs National
Monument
- Black Hills Sampler : Cave of choice, Mt.
Rushmore, Crazy Horse Mountain, Skyline
Drive, School of Mines Geology Museum,
Journey Museum, Prairies Edge (optional),
Wildlife loop. Return via US 71 (Choice of
four destinations)
- Crazy Horse’s Pine Ridge: Fort
Robinson, Historic Museum and Guard
House,(break at farmers market) Museum of
Fur Trade, Beaver Wall, White Clay drive
through, (Lunch at Sue Big Crow Recreation
Center), Wounded Knee, Red Cloud
Heritage Center Chapel and Art Museum.
Prairie Winds Casino (optional). Pine Ridge
and Badlands back roads
- Spanish Diggings: Paleo-Indian quartzite
quarry, dating 10,000 years ago to 1700’s. On
the west side of Rawhide Buttes (Hartville
uplift) excellent view of Front Range and
Laramie peak. Some four hundred square
miles of quarries, "teepee rings" hearths,
chipping stations, and locality markers. The
tour includes flint knapping and atlatl
demonstrations. Tail gate lunch enroute.
Greetings Vacationer,
Let me guide you through the former Sioux Treaty Territory that now
includes adjoining portions of Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska, the
land of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud. This region is still largely
undeveloped and retains the expansive vistas and wildlife that greeted the
scouts and fur traders. Add to this rich history by seeing the Black Hills,
Badlands, High Plains, Pine Ridge and Platte Valley through my eyes as a
naturalist and geologist/paleontologist to provide an ecological context in time
and recent history.
We will explore a spectacular land with many diverse, attractions, both
developed and pristine, as any tourist destination in the United States.
Let me take the hassle out of exploring, by handling the logistics, spare your
vehicle the hazards of back road and off road terrain, and arrange a custom
tour specific to your interest within a 150-mile radius of Fort Robinson State
Park. This may include wildlife, "ghost towns", mines, fossil and rock hunting
localities, and developed attractions.
You can visit these sites on your own and still not see and experience them in
their true historic and natural history context until you take a Thunder Horse
Tour.
Let me guide you through the former Sioux Treaty Territory that now
includes adjoining portions of Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska, the
land of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud. This region is still largely
undeveloped and retains the expansive vistas and wildlife that greeted the
scouts and fur traders. Add to this rich history by seeing the Black Hills,
Badlands, High Plains, Pine Ridge and Platte Valley through my eyes as a
naturalist and geologist/paleontologist to provide an ecological context in time
and recent history.
We will explore a spectacular land with many diverse, attractions, both
developed and pristine, as any tourist destination in the United States.
Let me take the hassle out of exploring, by handling the logistics, spare your
vehicle the hazards of back road and off road terrain, and arrange a custom
tour specific to your interest within a 150-mile radius of Fort Robinson State
Park. This may include wildlife, "ghost towns", mines, fossil and rock hunting
localities, and developed attractions.
You can visit these sites on your own and still not see and experience them in
their true historic and natural history context until you take a Thunder Horse
Tour.
| This is an opportunity for you to benefit from my 40 years of geologic experience specific to this region combined with 25 years experience in tourism, especially developing and conducting group tours. |
Airport Pick-up and Drop-off Service :
Shuttle service for 1-7 passengers: flat rate $1.00 per mile
distance to/from airport to/from your site. to or from Rapid
City, SD (150 miles), Scottsbluff, NE (90miles) or Chadron,
NE( minimum 25 miles)
Lodging and meals for your stay in the area may be arranged
through the members of Northwest Nebraska High Country
| THUNDER HORSE TOURS |
RATES :
Flat rate includes enroute presentations, admissions at attractions
and permit fees, cold water provided. Does not include lunch.
Preschool children go free.
HALF DAY : $150 per couple; may include two children age
12 or younger. Additional or older children $10 each.
FULL DAY : $350 per couple, may include two children age
12 or younger. Additional or older children $15 each (includes
meals)
Gem and Mineral Discount $10 for half day tour; $20 for full day
tour
Negotiable Rates for school groups, clubs, organizations with own
transportation.
RESERVATIONS MAY BE MADE A WEEK IN
ADVANCE with a $25.00 Deposit. Deposits are refundable
with notice of cancellation a full week prior to tour date. Balance
due the date of the tour.
Flat rate includes enroute presentations, admissions at attractions
and permit fees, cold water provided. Does not include lunch.
Preschool children go free.
HALF DAY : $150 per couple; may include two children age
12 or younger. Additional or older children $10 each.
FULL DAY : $350 per couple, may include two children age
12 or younger. Additional or older children $15 each (includes
meals)
Gem and Mineral Discount $10 for half day tour; $20 for full day
tour
Negotiable Rates for school groups, clubs, organizations with own
transportation.
RESERVATIONS MAY BE MADE A WEEK IN
ADVANCE with a $25.00 Deposit. Deposits are refundable
with notice of cancellation a full week prior to tour date. Balance
due the date of the tour.
| THUNDER HORSE ENTERPRISES David Nixon, Tour Director 104 Linn Street Crawford, Nebraska 69339 (308) 665-1753 thunderhorseenterprises@yahoo.com |