He felt that Needles was too weathered and ... quite like driving through the Iron Mountain Road tunnel and seeing a full ...

August: Borglum arrives in South Dakota and declares that he will carve a mountain, not the Needles. He decides on Mount Rushmore as the best site. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are to ...

Conceived as a way to draw tourism to South Dakota, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial has ... wanted the monument to be carved out of the Needles, a series of granite pillars.

Plan your adventure for things to do on a roadtrip to Mount Rushmore and make ... take a scenic drive along the Needles Highway, known for its narrow tunnels and unique rock formations.

Rhoden suggests a plot of land offered by the Lien family near Mount Rushmore as a suitable location ... “straddles the iconic Doane Robinson tunnel,” although an attached map appears to ...