Rapid City first came to my attention as a young teenager. I can remember a devastating flood that occurred there in the early 1970's
I spend a few days there in the summer of 1981. I was part of a caravan of geology students heading out to western Montana for summer field camp. While in Rapid City, we studied the geology of the Black Hills. Visited Mt Rushmore, toured a working gold mine. If you like rocks, The South Dakota School of Mines has a fabulous (and free) museum that houses a very nice mineral collection. The school also offers the only Master's Degree in the U.S. specifically in Paleoentology. (At other schools you get a MS in geology and specialize in paleo). So if your kids are in to dinosaurs, they have a nice of Dino's and other fossils too.
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I spend a few days there in the summer of 1981. I was part of a caravan of geology students heading out to western Montana for summer field camp. While in Rapid City, we studied the geology of the Black Hills. Visited Mt Rushmore, toured a working gold mine. If you like rocks, The South Dakota School of Mines has a fabulous (and free) museum that houses a very nice mineral collection. The school also offers the only Master's Degree in the U.S. specifically in Paleoentology. (At other schools you get a MS in geology and specialize in paleo). So if your kids are in to dinosaurs, they have a nice of Dino's and other fossils too.