Today is our first full day in the Black Hills. Mount Rushmore will be our first stop. Locals refer to this monument as "the Faces." The Presidents carved out of the mountain are, Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln. It took 17 years and over 400 men to complete the monument. Our day will be spent in the lower foothills of the Black Hills on scenic drive 16A. This will take us on Iron Mountain Road with tunnels that framed the faces as a picture frame would. We would enter Custer State Park and travel Wildlife Loop Road. Sightings of Buffalo, Bighorn Sheep, Antelope, Whitetail Deer, and groundhogs happened throughout the drive. We then went to the town of Custer which is where the first gold was found in the Black Hills before the discovery in Deadwood Gulch. We traveled on to Jewel Cave, but it was too late to obtain a tour. These Caves are the 2nd largest caverns in North America. Tomorrow we will travel north through the Black Hills to Nemo, Deadwood, and the Devil's Tower.
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