Twincitis to Badlands on the way to Mt. Rushmore

2 days / 550 miles / 8 hours 23 minutes

Hi!,

Please help us in planning a week-long trip to Mt. Rushmore. This leg is only upto Wall, SD where we are planning to do a stop over with intention of doing some landscape photography in Badlands during 'magic hours' of sunset and sunrise the next day. Next day we will spend 1/2 day in Badlands and try to reach Mt. Rushmore by 3 PM.

Traveling with 2 elders and 1 kid, so planning to stop every 2 hours for 15 minutes and lunch break for an hr (simple highway pit-stop subway/Taco Johns etc).


I am also scouting locations for some landscape photography in Badlands, using Google Maps for that, pls. check out the following link and if possible add your suggestions/insights:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zQTWff9XGlLA.k6bZrQ-CXLBw&usp=sharing


Thanks for reading!!

~Satyajit/Satlaj