Mount Rushmore

The roads that lead to Mount Rushmore....more than one way to get there.
As Yogi Berra would have said, if you come to the fork in the road, take it. For everyone who has had a good laugh at his malapropisms, you should know that when he made the famous quote, the situation was that he was giving directions to get to get to his home in NJ and what he meant was that both sides of fork in the road actually lead to his house, hence the 'take the fork'. Guess being slightly less articulate has its downside :)

87 is Iron Mountain hwy, all you bikers out there, this is one of the coolest rides that I did on the trip.

In the far distance, where the tree lines meet above the road is actually the monument...zoomed in shot below

Nice road eh? It is on roads such as this that I missed my R1...hardly any traffic, a little narrow, road surface okay-ish
Really nice details.....to give you some idea of size, each eye is about 11 feet across
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