Our route
Our road trip to Mount Rushmore and back to Denver took us a week.
During that time we travelled approximately 1500 miles - give or take - as we did a lot of shorter tours around the areas we stopped in.The trip:
Friday - arrive Denver, travel to Scottsbluff
Saturday - explore Scottsbluff, travel to Rapid City
Sunday - explore around Rapid City. Rapid City Sunday night
Monday - travel to Cheyenne. Stay in Cheyenne one night
Tuesday - travel to Steamboat Springs. Stay in Steamboat Springs two nights
Wednesday - explore around Steamboat Springs
Thursday - travel to Denver. Stay in Denver Thursday and Friday nights
Friday - explore Denver
Saturday - fly back to Houston
Here's a link to a Google 'story' about our trip.