Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Yellowstone advice please?

John259

Agreed - the Icefields Parkway (Alberta), the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park (Montana) and the Beartooth Highway (northeast of Yellowstone) are all wonderful drives. Here's some photos:
Icefields Parkway http://goo.gl/FzwCGo
Going-to-the-Sun Road http://goo.gl/fap2Sl
Beartooth Highway http://goo.gl/WS6L4B

EssexExile

travellerboy wrote: »

I would expect you have factored-in the added costs of one way car rental, even so there are many options for a route to include Yellowstone. Mount Rushmore maybe not worth the hassle !


My route would be Heathrow to Seattle the thru the Cascade mountains into Canada, visiting Jasper, Icefield Parkway / Banff and back into the US via Waterton Lakes National Park area. This is called the Road to the Sun highway, a pure dream. You pass thru the Glacier National Park onto Kalispel / Boseman then into Yellowstone Park itself. We passed thru Mammoth Hot Springs, on the Northern edge of Yellowstone onto Red Lodge to experience the Bear Tooth Highway, awesome something you will never forget. Then after a night in Red Lodge back into the park visiting all the highlights, we based ourselves in West Yellowstone for 3 nights.
Then exit Yellowstone thru the Grand Teton NP/ Jackson Hole - final returning back to the UK via Salt Lake City.
We included San Francisco as the starting point with a few days in Yosemite then flew from SF to Seattle for the bulk of the absolutely fabulous holiday - will do it again someday soon I hope.

That's several holidays for me! A fortnight up & down the Icefield Parkway was too rushed, there's so much to see.

travellerboy

EssexExile wrote: »

That's several holidays for me! A fortnight up & down the Icefield Parkway was too rushed, there's so much to see.

The OP never stated their timescale, we would never take less than 30 days as the flight is a killer ! A fortnight I agree is too rushed, if you need to cut anything from my journey, choose Canada - vastly overrated, expensive and generally poor service when compared to the US.

blindman

travellerboy wrote: »

The OP never stated their timescale, we would never take less than 30 days as the flight is a killer ! A fortnight I agree is too rushed, if you need to cut anything from my journey, choose Canada - vastly overrated, expensive and generally poor service when compared to the US.

Please tell me you're joking :eek:

I'd say the opposite.

However back to the OP Q.

I did fly into\out of Denver a while back on an epic MSE journey.

Did
Badlands,
Mt Rushmore
Crazy Horse memorial
Devils Tower in Wyoming
Wounded Knee Cemetery-Very depressing
Wall drug store

We then flew on to Hawaii so no one way car rental.

Don't try to do too much in one trip, there's always next year :rotfl: