DutchmenSport wrote:soren wrote:CharlesinGA wrote:
One thing we did NOT do was pay to see Crazy Horse. Here is one attraction "I" personally felt was a ripoff. Besides, you can see the monument from the road.
Rip off? Well? only if YOU think so. If so, don't go! We made that choice on one attraction.
Sad to see that you missed a great stop. Crazy Horse is not only a monument to the Plain's Indian tribes, but to the unimaginable drive of one man who decided to build the world's largest monument, even though he knew he, and his children, would probably never live to see the completion. Not only is it an ongoing project, but it is a great place to spend a few hours while touring several museums, watching a short documentary of the project, and learning about how one man's vision and drive could literally move a mountain, and create a spectacular piece of art.
I've done just about everything there is to do in the Hills, and it's pretty rare to find any real rip-offs. I've never had the urge to try out the Cosmos Mystery area, or the Presidential busts up in Lead (apparently I'm not alone on that one, since it closed) I wasted a bit of money on the National Woodcarving Museum, which was awful, and a bit more on the Borglum story, in Keystone, which isn't as good as the free museum and film at Rushmore. The interesting part of the area is that you can spend a few weeks there every summer and still not cover it all. This past year we rented a UTV and end up deep in the back woods of the northwestern hills, in areas few tourists will ever see. Nothing but cows, old gold mines and ghost towns. Just Beautiful.
