This great new rail and motorcoach tour take you to the beautiful National Parks of Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, the true Wild West! Ride Amtrak’s luxurious Superliner-equipped Empire Builder over the legendary Great Northern Railway route from Seattle, traveling east along the shores of Puget Sound, over the Cascade Mountains and then across the Montana Rockies to Glacier Park Station. Other train rides include the new Copper King Express from Butte to Anaconda in the canyons of western Montana and two steam railways: the Alder Gulch Short Line at Virginia City, Montana and the Black Hills Central from Hill City to Keystone in the heart of South Dakota’s Black Hills.
Sightseeing spotlights two National Parks: Glacier and Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore National Memorial. In Glacier cross the Continental Divide riding the famous Red Buses on the legendary Going-to-the-Sun Road and cruise the emerald waters of St. Mary Lake. Your exploration of Yellowstone includes the geysers of Old Faithful and the thundering waterfalls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. You also visit Lake Yellowstone and less-familiar sights such as the former Union Pacific RR depot in West Yellowstone, which now houses the exceptional Museum of the Yellowstone. In the Black Hills you will marvel at the Crazy Horse Memorial and Mount Rushmore by day and illuminated by night!
Unique sightseeing experiences include a cruise on the Missouri River through the awesome canyon at the Gates of the Mountains, a tour of the restored Nevada and Virginia City ghost towns, a visit to the incomparable Buffalo Bill Historical Center (one of the world’s greatest museums of the old west, with wonderful galleries of western and Indian art) and a visit to the great volcanic monolith of Devils Tower National Monument. Wildlife is a tour focus. Watch for bear, buffalo, elk and moose in Yellowstone National Park. At West Yellowstone tour the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center, and in Custer State Park, South Dakota, have a jeep safari into the buffalo herds that still freely range that area of the Black Hills.
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