Mt Rushmore-Custer State Park

Adjacent is this enormous state park, 71,000 acres of the Black Hills; this area should really be given almost a week to see it all.

We chose to go into the "Needles" area where grainite spires inspired the whole mountain-carving idea. Borglum looked at these and declared they wouldn't last as long as he intended - and were not big enough to do what he envisioned: memorialize our great presidents for all time. Still, this was a great drive - luckily NOT pulling the trailer (for obvious reasons, above).