The KOA at Mt. Rushmore is one of the prettiest and largest campgrounds that we have stayed in. This is looking out of our camper on Wednesday morning at the surrounding hills.
Here is our home away from home.
There were many activities for the kids to do, rent bicycles, water slides, pan for pretty stones, water park, horse back riding, boat riding, fishing, and last but not least, making noise until the early hours of the morning.
THE REST OF THE STORY.
In 1883, a young lawyer from out East went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to check on mining titles for the company that he represented. While checking titles, he became friends with many of the independent miners who were prospecting for the new gold that had been discovered in these hills. He started doing some pro bono work for the miners and helped them make sure that there titles to the land there were prospecting was legal. He becamed well liked for all of the help that he was doing for the “little man.” While hiking around the various claims one day, he came upon a very high peak. He asked one of the miners what the peaks name was. The miners told him that it didn’t have any, but said that they would just name it after him. And so they did. Clarence Rushmore Peak later became Mt. Rushmore. He was also the largest contributor of gifts to the sculptors who did the carving at the Peak. And now you know the rest of the story.
We were on our way to visit Mt. Rushmore when we came upon this pull off beside the highway. Judy is much more stronger that I had realized and I captured this picture of her holding up this huge stone with just her shoulder.
Here is a challenge for you. What else do you see in the picture of our trike.
More pictures of Mt. Rushmore.
An interesting story that we heard on our tour of the Presidents was how Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama felt jilted out of not having their likeness up there with the other presidents. The commissioned a sculptor to get their likeness up there but since neither had the money to pay for their individual face, they had the sculptor use parts from each other and put them together to create one. Below is a picture of the finished product.
I believe that might be a close up.