Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway
Mount Rushmore, SD

Mount Rushmore: America's shrine to democracy. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, four of the great presidents of the United States of America, look out on visitors who flock to them from all over the world. As sculptor Gutzon Borglum began this project of carving monumental faces out of a granite cliff, he told reporters:

"I did not and don't intend that (the Memorial) shall be just a damn big thing, a three-day tourist wonder. A nation's memorial should, like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, have a serenity, a nobility, and power that reflects the gods they have become."