Day Thirteen: Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Custer State Park

We started the day by getting up and heading to Mt. Rushmore.  We got there before it got too hot and too crowded.  It was so surreal to walk up and see something so big and something that you have seen so many times on TV, in books and other people’s photos. It just isn’t the same until you see it yourself.  We walked the trail around it, getting to see the President faces at all different angles.  We took lots of photos and got our souvenirs (probably the largest souvenir store we had been in up to this point).  

Next we were off to see the Crazy Horse memorial.  Again, we had a short history lesson on the drive there. This monument isn’t finished yet.  It will take a long time to complete and it’s being done with limited funding.  But it cost us $35 to park so maybe we helped fund this project a little.  😉

Next we headed into the town of Custer to eat lunch at the Black Hills Burger & Bun Co. we heard they had the best bison burgers.  And we would have to agree!  So good!!  After lunch, we headed into the Custer State Park, hoping to see wild life.  We did see several bison, deer and some prairie dogs.  

We had planned to drive straight into the Wind Cave National Park from here and we did start into it but it was taking us a while to get to the entrance and visitor center    We were all getting tired so we opted to head back to our house.  We were an hour away by this time so it was kinda tiring getting back.  We opted to order pizza in and hang out at the house for the remainder of the night.  This was a good idea.  We ate, worked on our scrapbooks, watched a devotional on FB live and then a movie.