Visited: Thursday, August 6th, 2009
One of the joys of the national parks is that they aren't, with rare exception, heavily commercialized. Mount Rushmore is an exception; I'm tempted to add "unfortunately", but there's at least one fortune to it (a chance to meet one of the carvers of Mount Rushmore), and it wasn't too showy.
Mount Rushmore was well positioned to disappoint me; I was looking forward to it as much as _any_ stop we made during the course of our trip. But it didn't; the site was well set to handle the large crowd, and the carving is simply amazing.
Even more amazing was the fog that rolled in, completely obscuring the view, and then rolled back out again, all over the course of less than ten minutes.
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