Visiting Date:My Two Cents:
- I have never seen such an amazing architecture. When you drive close to the park, you could see the wonderful view of Mt. Rushmore and it just makes you so excited about it. And that's time to get off the car and take some pictures.
Things To Do:
- Mt. Rushmore is a small park. The admission fee is cheap too per vehicle. You can spend 2-3 hours there including browsing the gift shop. Or if you are a hiker, there's a trail that you can do also to hike up close to the mountain. We didn't do that, but we enjoyed very much the view of the Four Presidents.
- We also returned at night to the park to see Mt. Rushmore glowing in the dark. I took some photos that time but they really don't capture that incredible view very well, but they can give you an idea about what Mt. Rushomore looks like at night. It's really cool.
- Next to Mt. Rushmore, of course it's the Crazy Horse Memorial. I will talk about that in another post.
Restaurants:
- When we were there, I did not see any food stands/fast food places there at the park.
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Visiting Date:- The Crazy Horse Memorial is really cool. It is a small park as well. Most people are only aware of the Mount Rushmore, but not this memorial park. It's really close to Mount Rushmore, and it's worth to check it out.
Things To Do:- Mount Rushmore is near by.
- There is a visitor center inside the park. You can go there, walk around and see some history of the Crazy Horse Memorial.
- Take the shuttle to go down to see and take picture of the Crazy Horse up close. The guide will tell you some stories about the memorial. It was so cool though for me to see it really that close.
- If you have time, you can drive to Wyoming and visit the Devils Tower National Monument.
Things To Know:- When we were there, the park admission was $20. It was expensive, but the thing is all those admissions fees are donated for the memorial's work and maintenance. As you probably know, the memorial is not done yet. They are still working on it. I am not sure if they still charge the same fee or not.
Restaurants:- We had chilil hot dogs at the park. There was a fast check out restaurant in the park.
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Visiting Date:- I went to visit the Devils Tower National Monument was during my visit to Black Hills for the quest for Mount Rushmore. This is a nice little state park that you can look at the big giant mountain showing up to the sky lol. and that's the Devils Tower. We had a little time in hand, and therefore, after visiting the Crazy Horse, we went for a drive to see this Tower. It's really cool to check out once. You may have to google map to see how far it takes you to there from Black Hills. I can't remember, but it wasn't really bad far.
Things To Do:- As mentioned above, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse are not bad far from the Devils Tower.
- You will see how cool it is that you are driving up close to it, then kind of circle around it.
- If you like to hike, you can hike around the Tower.
- Take pictures. It has very good scenaries there.
- When I was there, there's a gift shop right before you enter the park. So you can either shop before or after you enter the park. We went to there like late in the evening (you can see the sun shine in my picture), so I did the shopping first, just in case ;)
Restaurants:- I didn't recall seeing any restaurant there.
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