Hotel Reservations near: MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL
It started as an idea to draw sightseers. The story of Mount Rushmore's creation is as bizarre and wonderful as the monument itself. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills, towers the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. The entire project took fourteen years to complete and constitutes the world's largest piece of sculpture.
The artist, Gutzon Borglum made his name through celebration of things American. He said that American art was supposed to be “big”. "Our age will some day be called the 'Colossal Age’.
Open all year, the park is located in South Dakota's Black Hills, approximately 20 miles Southwest of Rapid City.