What the finished memorial will look like
Just an hour away from Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial privately owned by a nonprofit foundation in the lands of the Lakota people. Built in memory to the legendary Crazy Horse who resisted the onslaught of European invaders, it is intended to become a university campus and a historical centre for the native peoples of North America. Ironically, it is located in Custer county, named after General George A. Custer who died in the battle of Little Bighorn.
It’s very, very far from the paid viewing area
Entry is a tad expensive at $12 per car, but not as expensive as the state-sponsored extortion in the Mount Rushmore carpark. There’s a huge souvenir shops to earn big bucks from tourists and a canteen to grab some overpriced food with no competition. I didn’t expect anything less. Tours are available to reach the top of the monument, but again it’ll cost you extra.
There’s a little gravel campsite where you can get just as good a view of the monument as inside the paid area. The paid area is nowhere near the actual monument and the fact that the monument is nowhere near finished makes the price nowhere near worth it.
