Your Adventure Awaits! Black Hills Balloons flies in the southern Black Hills, making the Custer Valley and world-renowned Custer State Park the heart of our flying area; just miles from Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Wind Cave National Park! Your flight over mountains, valleys, lakes and prairies, is one of the best ways to view the Black Hills; home to elk, antelope, deer, and buffalo. If you’re lucky, you might even see a mountain lion from our secure gondola! The beautiful Black Hills is the only place in the world where you can witness such historic, wild landscape and abundant wildlife from a hot air balloon.

Established in 1984, BHB has been flying the Black Hills for 30+ years. Awarded a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence multiple years in a row, we take pride in creating the best experience for our passengers and sharing the beauty of the hills with everyone we meet. Join us for a flight and we see why we are one of the top attractions in the Black Hills!

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Stop At: Custer, SD 57730, USA

Reservations are required. We meet our passengers each morning at a central meeting location in Custer, SD. Passengers will park their vehicles and travel to the launch field in one of our insured Black Hills Balloons vans.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Custer, SD 57730, USA

Once you arrive to the field, our crew gets to work unloading and preparing the aircraft while passengers are briefed and take photos. The balloon takes 20 minutes to prepare for flight and once ready, passengers are requested to board.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Custer, SD 57730, USA

The flight is approximately one hour, determined by weather and available landing locations. Upon landing, our ground crew will pack the balloon while passengers and pilot celebrate the flight with complimentary champagne, light snacks and a story about the origin of hot air ballooning.

Duration: 2 hours

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Using your smartphone, you'll be given an app to download and a starting location. Once you arrive at the starting location, you'll send a text to check in and get your game setup on the app. From your starting location, also known as your Home Base, the app will lead you from checkpoint to checkpoint around the city to collect clues and solve puzzles. Once you've completed all 3 quests, you'll come back to your Home Base and solve a final puzzle. The objective is to have fun, score the most points, and correctly solve the final puzzle! You are not alone. You will have a remote guide that is just a call or text away that can help throughout your adventure!

Recommended starting location to start 3Quest Challenge. This is where you will begin your scavenger hunt. (Please start outside)

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CAN YOU SURVIVE THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?

Zombie Scavengers leads you into the city to collect supplies to survive during this interactive scavenger game.

With the whole world in chaos and zombies outnumbering the living 10 to 1, small colonies of the living are doing all they can to survive. Using your smartphone, your team will be tasked with scavenging the city for food, supplies, weapons, and shelter. The more things you find, the more points you get and more likely you are to survive. Along the way, you will be asked to do a challenge or answer a trivia question in order to be rewarded virtual weapons to ward off the zombies. The area is crawling with relentless zombies, and rival colonies are moving in. If you get too relaxed, rival colonies will take what you worked hard to find. The goal is to find all of the items in hopes that you will survive the zombie apocalypse.

Recommended starting location to start Zombie Scavengers. This is where you will begin your hunt to survive the zombie apocalypse. (Please start outside)

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Using an app on your smartphone, you'll be given nearly 120 objects to find during your scavenger hunt. You'll then wander throughout the downtown area searching for the items. Once you've found the object, you'll send a photo in to score points. Along the way, you will perform challenges for even more points. You'll have 13 categories of objects you can find in this city walk, with each object varying in points depending on the difficulty. Don't worry, you won't be alone. You'll have a remote guide that will be texting you during your game if you need help or have a question. They will also encourage you and give you hints along the way! The objective of the game is to have fun, rank #1 on the leaderboard, and try to get as many points as possible by finding all of the objects!

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During Operation City Quest, participants will solve riddles in order to find items throughout the city and complete challenges. For each correct task completed, the players will get points for their team. The team will be able to see their score on the leaderboard compared to others.

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Saturday food tours are a collection of tastes from different restaurants and breweries in Downtown Sioux Falls. Join us for the history of the city and some amazing bites that might surprise you.

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Pass By: Old Courthouse Museum, 6th & Main St, Sioux Falls, SD

We will discuss the unique history of this business.

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TOUR:

Hop into 'Buff', a modified Open Safari Jeep with our experienced guide and depart on an exciting and adventurous Private Safari Tour of Mt. Coolidge, Iron Mountain Road, Needles Highway, Sylvan Lake, and Custer State Park Wildlife Loop. Enjoy a picnic lunch and take advantage of the multiple photo opportunities. Your Jeep tour is capped at 6 travelers and/or 880 pounds.  And remember, although this is not a 'Desert Rock Crawler' tour . . .  it is in an open Jeep . . . so please bring along: hat, sunglasses, sunscreen and light jacket.

NOTE: This is a Private tour in our specialized one of a kind Jeep. This tour has special cancellation requirements. We refund 100% with 7 days notice, inside 7 days 50%. NO Refund within 24 hours of tour start. (Please contact us to discuss exceptions.)

• IMPORTANT NOTE: Upon booking please you MUST let us know which hotel you are staying at for pickup

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Stop At: Iron Mountain Road, Custer State Park, Custer, SD

On our way to Custer Park we drive along Iron Mtn Road. This is an iconic road that many visitors miss. We drive through unique one way granite tunnels, over the famous pigtail bridges and are afforded excellent views of Mt Rushmore and the Black Hills.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Custer State Park, 13329 US Highway 16A, Custer, SD 57730-8351

Stops at State Game Lodge and Information Center. Then drive open-top along Wildlife Loop and view 15,000 head of buffalo (we stop next to them, you stand and look down at these huge beasts) + deer, antelope and other wildlife.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Mount Coolidge, South Dakota

Fantastic views from Forest Service Lookout Tower.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Stockade Lake, Custer, SD

We stop here for a tranquil picnic lunch at midday. This is the largest lake in the region and provides a quiet peaceful setting.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Needles Highway, Custer State Park, SD

Slow drive through this famous mountain trail. Amazing granite formations and breathtaking open-top mountain views.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Sylvan Lake, Custer, SD

Short break at this amazing alpine lake.

Duration: 15 minutes

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