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New regulations would require helicopter tours to stay higher above or farther away from some of South Dakota’s most scenic features.
New regulations in the U.S. will limit where tourist flights in planes and helicopters can fly around national parks and monuments.
The National Park Service has adopted new restrictions on commercial air tours at Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Badlands National Park.
Commercial air tours will be banned over Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore National Memorial under plans completed by the National Park Service.
Proposed air tour management plans for units of the National Park System released Monday range from a ban on the overflights to greatly reduced numbers of allowed flights, targets that were established with input from Indigenous stakeholders and the public at large.