Bear Country, USA

We went to Bear Country, USA which is right close to Mt. Rushmore. Lots of great tourist things to do in this area. This was one of our favorites! As the sign says, you drive through the wild animals and you have to keep your windows up and sunroof closed at all times. It was SO tempting to roll down the window briefly to get a great picture. But you couldn't. We LOVED being up close and personal with the animals.

Each new animal was only separated by a wide cattle guard. I was amazed the animals didn't just try to take a running leap over it. These were the Arctic Wolves. Beautiful dogs. : )

Bear Country has about 100 bears and 2 grizzlies. That's a lot!

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Nate with a Bighorn Sheep staring him down.

Johnathan cruisin' through the Bear exhibit.

Bears loungin' around.

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Big black bear! He was a huge guy.

Cute older brown bear.

We LOVED Bear Country!

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I asked him to howl like a wolf...and he did it!

We LOVED the baby bear exhibit! Lots of baby bears!

Johnathan, 2 yrs old.

Oh so cute!

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That is an otter climbing out of the water...on the right side.

This place has the coolest gift shop known to man. : )

Wall Drug

What a FUN place to stop on your drive from Rapid City, SD to the Badlands. This is what you see all the "Wall Drug" signs for like every mile leading up to it. Johnathan had a load of fun there. Lots of fun eye candy for us.

Chief Johnathan James

Tons and tons of stores amongst here.

Badlands

This was quite a sight to see. We were glad we drove the extra hour and a half to go see the Badlands. It is just such unique terrain. I thought it is what hell would look like...if you added fire.

Could you image anyone trying to cross through these? People do I guess.

Fun family photo at the Badlands.