This morning we drove from Spearfish, SD to Mount Rushmore in Keystone, SD. It wasn't too long of a drive and out here the drives are pretty nice. Like Devils Tower, you can see the main attraction a copy of miles away. Let me just say that seeing Mount Rushmore in person completely trumps looking a pictures and reading all about it. You have to see it in person to appreciate all the work that went into this.
I would go into the history of Mount Rushmore that I read about today, but I figured I'd just post a helpful article here. Here is an article about the main developer too.
I should have been blasting this little ditty on my ipod while at Rushmore...
