About Rushmore Travel
Your Complete Guide to Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills.
Plan your Black Hills vacation with trusted destination guides, local businesses, Traveler Magazine stories and practical tools that bring your entire trip together.
Photo: Kimon Berlin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Why we built it
From travel inspiration to an itinerary you can actually use.
Most travel websites make visitors jump between articles, directories, maps and saved notes. Rushmore Travel was built to connect those pieces. Travelers can discover a city, attraction, hotel, restaurant, shop or event and add it directly to a personal trip.
Our goal is straightforward: make the Black Hills easier to explore while helping travelers find the local places that give the region its character.
Rushmore Travel combines the reach and regional storytelling of Traveler Magazine with a modern destination platform designed around the complete visitor journey.
Local experience behind the platform
More than 65 years connected to Black Hills tourism.
Rushmore Travel is not an outside travel directory trying to describe the region from a distance. It is built by people with decades of direct involvement in the Black Hills visitor economy and a long-standing commitment to the businesses and communities that welcome travelers here.
Decades of regional experience
More than 65 years of combined involvement in Black Hills tourism informs how Rushmore Travel represents the region, its communities and the businesses that serve visitors.
Built in the Black Hills
The platform is shaped by long-standing local relationships, regional publishing experience and firsthand knowledge of the Black Hills visitor economy.
Designed for what comes next
That local foundation now supports a modern travel platform connecting destination content, local businesses and practical itinerary planning.
What makes Rushmore Travel different
A guide, a local directory and a travel planner in one place.
Discover with context
Explore city travel guides, landmarks, outdoor adventures, events and Traveler Magazine stories built around Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills.
Find local businesses
Move naturally from inspiration to places to stay, eat, shop and explore—with dedicated information for communities throughout the region.
Build the complete trip
Save discoveries as you browse, add optional dates and times, and organize everything into a practical day-by-day itinerary.
Built for travelers
Start with Mount Rushmore. Discover everything around it.
For many visitors, Mount Rushmore begins the trip—but it rarely ends there. Rushmore Travel helps people connect the memorial with Rapid City, Keystone, Custer, Deadwood, Spearfish, the Badlands and communities across South Dakota.
Keep the whole trip connected.
- Save cities, attractions, restaurants, lodging, shopping and events.
- Build a simple list or arrange a detailed day-by-day itinerary.
- Keep local recommendations and trip information together.
- Use one account across the Rushmore Travel platform.
Our standards
Useful information, presented responsibly.
Regional relevance
We focus on information that helps people understand destinations and plan meaningful travel throughout the Black Hills and South Dakota.
Clear business participation
Traveler Magazine partners and sponsored placements are identified so visitors can distinguish paid participation from general directory information.
Corrections and current details
Businesses may claim and update eligible listings. Travelers should confirm time-sensitive details such as hours, prices and availability directly with the provider.
Respect for sources
Photography credits and reuse licenses are displayed when required, with a dedicated attribution record available across the site.
Built with local businesses
Helping travelers discover the people behind the destination.
The Black Hills visitor economy is built by locally owned attractions, hotels, restaurants, shops, tour operators and service businesses. Rushmore Travel gives those businesses a direct path into the traveler’s research and planning process.
Business owners can request listing corrections, claim eligible profiles and explore enhanced participation through Rushmore Travel and Traveler Magazine.
Your Black Hills trip starts here
Discover more. Keep it organized. Travel your way.
Explore destination guides and local places, then turn your discoveries into one connected Mount Rushmore and Black Hills itinerary.