Rapid City Courses

Faith, Wall, Sturgis—Rapid City golf speeds up in the summer. Pressed for hours? Get a last-minute tee time deal on some of the best nine-hole courses in North America. A high concentration of parks and memorials will keep visitors busy after golf. Rockhound in the Black Hills. Check out the Museum of Geology. Ponder time.

In five years, you'll be able to stand toe-to-toe with a downtown bronze of every U.S. president. The Crazy Horse Monument, on the other hand, will take more than one hundred years to chisel out of a mountainside. You can bid on an abandoned gold-rush town near Rushmore or commune with the sacred energies of Paha Sapa. Pace of play ultimately determines these matters.