allowing for the carving of a monument in Custer State Park. August: Borglum arrives in South Dakota and declares that he will carve a mountain, not the Needles. He decides on Mount Rushmore as ...
The 17-mile scenic drive along Iron Mountain Road connects two of the area’s primary attractions, Custer State Park and Mount ...
(Some of the area in which Rushmore stands was eventually purchased by the state of South Dakota and developed as Custer State Park; the rest was part of the Black Hills National Forest.) ...