Guided Tour of Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Carved into the granite of Mount Rushmore between 1927 and 1941 under the direction of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, the 60-foot faces of four presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln – look out over South Dakota’s Black Hills. The Black Hills, where Mount Rushmore was constructed were, and still are, considered sacred by the Lakota Sioux, the tribe native to the region. Initially conceived by the South Dakota historian Doane Robinson to feature the faces of both Native American and pioneer heroes of the west, the monument forever changed the landscape.

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