An afternoon to cover the Black Hills. What to see? Dozens of must-dos vie for attention, so we rushed out of Rushmore after a solid two hours of mountain gazing.
The best decision we made was driving Iron Mountain Road with its legendary pigtail bridges and tiny tunnels that perfectly frame Mount Rushmore from a distance (hard to see here, but in person it is breathtaking):
Iron Mountain Road winds from the memorial to Custer State Park. The welcoming committee? A herd of wild donkeys near the park entrance (including several babies):
Then lunch at the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park. This gorgeous, Craftsman-y pile served as the summer White House for Calvin Coolidge. Today, it has a vintage summer-camp aura (loved) and serves a 1955-style lunch that includes bison stew, corn and peas, mashed potatoes and blueberry pie.
Also: Visited Custer (the town), the National Woodcarvers Museum, Flintstones Park, admired the still-in-process Crazy Horse memorial, drank local buffaloberry wine at the Prairie Berry Winery and tooled through Lead, an old mining burg near Deadwood.
Favorite sign of the day:
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I'm starting to think you guys make/post your own signs on vacations..."Keep your children off Fred"...it's, it's too good.
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