So Crazy Horse… what a concept with lots of controversy. It’s supposed to be the largest memorial carved out of a mountain; started in 1948 this is the goal:
So far they have the face and the top part of arm and hand mostly done.
They have a meandering museum that covers indigenous people from around all of North America with lots of artifacts and old photographs. Interestingly, there are no known photographs of Crazy Horse - instead the Polish sculptor spike with people who had seen him and based it off that.
Throwing snowball everywhere. Literally everywhere.
After three, we stopped in the little town of Custer for lunch. It’s amazing how many businesses here close for the season.
Next stop was Custer State Park - we headed straight for the Wildlife loop and were not disappointed!
We saw buffalo, tons of prairie dogs, deer, mountain goats, and burros.
On the way out, we tried to take the Needles Highway, but halfway through the road was closed. Did we turn around?! Of course not! We took the dirt road to the left and hoped for the rest! As the sun went down, we bounced along the clay road with snow around. The views were beautiful!
Clearly, we lived to tell the tale!
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