Mount Rushmore: Four Presidents Carved Into the Black Hills
The colossal granite portraits above the Black Hills remain South Dakota's defining image and its most-visited monument.
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Landmarks
Carved granite, national memorials and the monuments that define the state.
Crazy Horse Memorial: The Mountain Still Being Carved
A few miles from Rushmore, a far larger sculpture honoring the Lakota leader has been underway for more than seventy years.
Badlands National Park: A Maze of Eroded Spires
Layered buttes and jagged canyons stretch across the prairie in one of the continent's richest fossil landscapes.
Wind Cave: One of the World's Longest and Oldest Caves
Beneath the southern Black Hills lies a labyrinth famous for a rare, delicate calcite formation.
Custer State Park: Bison, Burros and the Wildlife Loop
One of the largest state parks in the country wraps 71,000 acres of granite, grassland and roaming herds.
The Needles Highway: Driving Through Granite Spires
A serpentine mountain road threads narrow tunnels and towering rock needles in the heart of the hills.