Crazy Horse Memorial (SD)
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Crazy Horse Memorial Visitor Center
The surprisingly large visitor center...
Crazy Horse Memorial Visitor Center
The visitor center houses the Indian Museum of North America, with many interesting artifacts and works of art...
Crazy Horse Memorial Visitor Center
Tipi, Indian Museum of North America...
Looking at the monument from the observation deck...the sheer size is a bit lost on the visitor as the monument is nearly a mile away...
What is, and what will be...
The oft-used quote by Crazy Horse at this monument is, "My lands are where my dead lie buried."
Some details to bring perspective...
This poem will also be carved in the mountain...each letter will be three feet high!
Been there, done that pose...
A closer look at the mountain...you could just barely hear heavy equipment moving around though we couldn't see it...
The face of Crazy Horse, completed in 1998 on the 50th Anniversary of the memorial, measures nearly 90' high...
A drawing of what the memorial is intended to one day look like...
Crazy Horse Memorial Visitor Center
Buy a piece of the mountain...only $1 !!
There were a number of these stunning Mountain Bluebirds fluttering around the visitor center...
A parting panorama of the memorial...quite a place!
