Day 13 - Mt. Rushmore

   Today, we once again had excellent weather for our day at Mt. Rushmore.  It's a beautiful drive up the mountain to the memorial.  The terrain and scenery are really breath taking to us.  We parked and started our walk up to the entrance to the memorial.

This is the first view of the memorial from the parking garage.

   I was impressed with the walk up to the closest view of the memorial.  There were these massive walls which defined separate areas of the entrance without walling them in.  The initial wall held the information center and welcome center.  The next wall housed the gift shops and restaurants and ice cream shops.  The third and final wall housed the display halls and viewing area and amphitheater.  There was a nice museum which detailed the people and tools that built the monument and history of the development.  The pictures don't do it justice and I'm glad we came to check this off our bucket list.

We had lunch at the restaurant at the memorial and met some very nice people who were visiting from Missouri.  We kind of ran out of steam and decided to head back to the camper.  You can see the rest of the pictures I took here.

LUV 2 U All!  Until later!

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