Mount Rushmore

When you enter the facility you go down the Avenue of Flags, hung in alphabetical order.


Right after we went thru the Avenue we saw this Mountain Goat on the left side:

• Carving dates 1927 - 1941
• Total Cost: $989,992,32
• number of workers: 400
  
• Namesake: Charles Rushmore
• Sculptor: Gutzon Borglum
• Main Tool: Dynamite
• Type of Rock: Harney Peak Granite

Meaning of Mount Rushmore: Democracy

President Theodore Roosevelt



President Abraham Lincoln



President George Washington



President Thomas Jefferson



Some posters. This is a guy in a harness taken from above him, looking down.





This is the actual harness, with a poster next to it.



Blasting:









We spotted Mt. Rushmore again from very far away, as we were in Custer State Park.


And one last time when we were on Iron Mountain Highway. You can barely make them out on the other side of the tunnel opening: