Private Tour
Self-Guided Audio Driving Tour in Black Hills and Mt Rushmore
Overview
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Don't miss a thing as GuideAlong's Audio Driving Tour takes you on three incredible self-guided routes through the Black Hills mountains, canyons and forests, unique rock formations in Badlands National Park, the gigantic carvings at Mount Rushmore and wildlife spotting in Custer State Park.
You'll hear fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, local tips and directions that plays automatically as you drive along the routes.
And enjoy the freedom to explore offline at your own pace; spending more time at places that interest you, and bypass any that don’t.
✅ Stories, tips and directions play automatically based on your location
✅ Travel at your own pace
✅ Tours work offline using GPS, no cell service or WiFi needed
✅ Suggested itineraries for half, full or multi day use
✅ Buy once, use forever! No expiry, includes free updates
Purchase one tour per vehicle.
Additional Info
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How to Access: After booking you’ll receive an email and text with instructions (search “Download Audio Tour”). Click the link in the email/text to sign in with your preferred Apple or Google account and redeem your voucher code ahead of time.
Download The GuideAlong App: Download the free app over WiFi or cellular data and sign in with the same Apple or Google account.
Download The Tour: Download the tour in the GuideAlong app under 'My Tours' over WiFi or cellular data.
Start The Tour: Open the tour in the GuideAlong app to preview the start locations, tour route and trip planner, or start the tour.
Location-Based Stories: Audio commentary plays automatically as you drive using your phone’s GPS chip. Wherever you are and whichever direction you’re going, you’ll hear the best stories and tips.
Flexible Travel Date: Tours are a one-time purchase with no expiry or date/time limit. If your plans change to a different day, there’s no need to change your travel date.
Tour at Your Leisure: With GuideAlong, you control the pace. Start, stop, and resume the tour any day, anytime, adapting it to your schedule.
Driving Tours: Group Savings: One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle, making it a cost-effective way to explore.
Works Offline: No internet or cell service is required once the audio tour is downloaded to your phone, so you can relax and tour offline.
Bring A Charger: Pack a USB/C car charger for charging and easy sound connectivity, and make sure your device is fully charged.
Technical Support: The GuideAlong support team is available daily by toll-free phone, online chat, and email.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Support: Toll free phone, chat and email
Easy To Use: Pre-download and tour offline
Trip Planners: In-app, web and PDF
Location Based: Stories, tips & directions that autoplay
Buy once, use forever! No expiry, includes free updates
GuideAlong (GyPSy Guide) Audio Tour: 535+ Points
Flexible Routes: Suggested itineraries or create your own
Entrance Fees
National Park Passes
Reservations
What To Expect
The Black Hills
As the audio guides play commentary based on your gps location, you can create your own itinerary along the tour route(s) to match your interests and schedule. Or you can use our trip planners for our suggestions on half, full or multi day itineraries. Some of the many highlights are listed below;
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
The most famous and recognizable memorial celebrating the nationhood of the USA must be the 4 presidential faces that look out from Mount Rushmore. Though you will have seen it many times depicted on TV, movies and photos, there is no equivalent to seeing it with your own eyes and feeling the scale and depth of the sculpture.
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Self-Guided Audio Driving Tour in Black Hills and Mt Rushmore
Reviews
146 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great narrator and automatic play
LaReita B,
Aug 21, 2025
- Viator
5.00Was impressed with the narration immediately starting wherever our location was. Though when we doubled-back, the narration duplicated, so we just had to skip/pause. Engaging narrator!
Not worth it
Karla S,
Jul 5, 2025
- Viator
2.00Couldn’t start and stop the tour without having to listen to the beginning over and over. Could not fast forward.
Make available offline
David J,
Jun 24, 2025
- Viator
3.00Cell coverage is very iffy in this area so we missed a lot of the narration. Please consider making the audio available while offline.
This is a very well done...
peter t,
Jun 12, 2025
- Viator
4.00This is a very well done drive along tour. Some points that were unclear to me before starting the tour. You can start the tour anywhere on the route. I am not certain what the times provided are on the webpage description, the don't seem to be travel times from destination to the next, nor recommended attraction times. There are really three different loops: There is the deadwood to devils tower trip etc.; the Black hills, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy horse, custer, etc.; and, the badlands. You could easily spend a day on each. My favorites were the Badlands, needles hwy, Sylvan lake, deadwood. We didn't get to the custer wildlife loop or devils rock, and weren't able to get to do some of the trail hikes that we wanted and skipped some of the lesser attractions as we only have 1 day and a half. So, to reiterate. If you want to see it all, I recommend the three loops in 3 days. As I said, the ride along instructions were very informative, well organized and included directions. It does trigger the audio via the GPS and there are some spots where you can lose signal briefly and thereby have gaps in the audio. Also, it would be helpful if the app were to work with carplay so you could follow in your car map. If you get off the designated path, you then have to navigate back to the point where the tour will pick up again. All in all, if you want to self-guide this tour will do the trick. There is lots of historical background and detailed information on the sites.
Great value and a great travel companion
Simon R,
May 26, 2025
- Viator
5.00Very easy to download, even for a technophobe like me! We really found this a useful guide while driving around the sites and made our drive come to life and really enjoyable Great value and we will certainly look out for other guides to use along travels
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