Black Elk Peak
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Black Elk Peak, formerly known as Harney Peak, is the highest natural point in the Black Hills mountain range and the U.S. state of South Dakota. It lies in the Black Elk Wilderness area, in southern
Black Elk Peak, the highest point in South Dakota viewed from Black Elk Peak Trail, May 2018
Fire tower at Black Elk Peak
View of Black Elk Peak from hiking trail
View from the top of the Black Elk Peak lookout tower
Mount Rushmore
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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial featuring a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, about 2 mi southwest of Keystone, South Da
Black Elk Peak
…Dakota. It lies in the Black Elk Wilderness area, in southern Pennington County, in the Black Hills. The peak lies 3.7 mi (6.0 km) west-southwest of Mount Rushmore. At 7,244 feet (2,208 m), It was once discussed to be a potential candidate for the highest summit in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains…
View of Mount Rushmore, showing Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
Doane Robinson was inspired by this view on the Needles Highway to create the sculpture, though this location was ultimately not chosen
The completed sculpture
Mount Rushmore (Six Grandfathers) before construction, c. 1905