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Black Hills
Bursting with enough autumnal color to brighten up the four stone-faced presidents chiseled into Mount Rushmore, South Dakota’s heavily forested Black Hills region also entices fall visitors with plenty of family-friendly diversions, like its giant two-level wooden maze, and grown-up pastimes, like saloon-style gambling in Deadwood – the famously untamed Old West gold-mining town where Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane once roamed. Late September and early October also coincide with the region's annual Buffalo Roundup and Arts Festival in Custer State Park, where a thunderous herd of buffalo is rounded up by cowboys on horseback. Whatever you do, don’t leave Rapid City (the area's main gateway) without a stop at The Corn Exchange restaurant, where local organic produce is transformed into culinary masterpieces (think pheasant dumplings and white-corn-and-scallion pancakes).
How: Fly to Rapid City Regional Airport (RAP), which lies along the eastern slope of the Black Hills, from Chicago (United; 2 hours), Denver (United; 1 hour), Las Vegas (Allegiant Air; 3 hours), Minneapolis (NWA; 1.5 hours), and Salt Lake City (Delta; 1.5 hours).
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