Great Tour Today

We arrived at Hart Ranch on Tuesday the 7th and this is a nice park.  Our site is fairly nice and the amenities seem to be really good.  The only bad thing that we have found is the water pressure starts out good and quickly goes to next to nothing.  Here is a picture of the site we are in.

Today we took a tour of Mt. Rushmore, Iron Mountain Road, Custer State Park, State Game Lodge, Needles Highway, Sylvan Lake and Crazy Hourse Monument.  We departed from Ft. Hayes, which is where the office of the Major in Dances With Wolves was shot, with Keven Costner.  It was quite an experience.  We started with all you can eat pancakes.

We first headed to Mt. Rushmore.  This is a place that is certainly one that you want to make if your ever out this way.  We even took the presidents walk, which was nice until we had to take all the steps up, but we made it up.

Next we took Iron Mountain Road, which included a lot of switch backs and 3 tunnels.  I sure wouldn't want to take my 5th wheel down this road.

Next we enjoyed Custer State Park.  This was a nice State Park, that then goes into a wildlife refuge.  There is a LOT of nice scenery here.

Next we had lunch at the State Game Lodge.  A nice place.

After lunch, we traveled Needles Highway.  The tunnels here are very narrow.  One was only 8'4" wide.  The bus before us went through and I got some shots of it.  We were a lot shorter, but just as high and just as wide.  Our driver did a great job!

After the nerves settled down, we went to Sylvan Lake.  This is a nice lake.  You may recognize one of the pictures from National Treasure II.  When Nicholas Cage reached into the rock for the lever, this is the rock they were on.  Kind of neat!  The gift shop had some neat stuff too!

 The last place we visited was Crazy Horse Monument.  This is a work still in progress and has been for over 70 years.  We have decided that we will ask our grand children to take pictures when it is done, as it probably won't be in our life time.  This is one of the must see places our here!

This was really a busy day for us.  Tomorrow, we will probably go to the local Air Force Base to the commissary.  We head East on Monday.  Will be visiting an old Navy buddy of mine that I have not seen since 1981,  Will be good to see him.
Y'all travel safe, and I'll type more later!