It's amazing how the scenery can change just over the hill. It was mostly flat and the next Rest Area promised a "Scenic View". Of course it was CLOSED. And as we dropped over the hill, the Missouri River was in front of us.

Once at the bottom of the hill Debbie took this picture of the river from the bridge.

This is 1880 town. No pets allowed so we took a break and let Lady do her business and moved on.

The terrain got flat again but some nice views of rocks.

Here's the same rocks, just closer.

Wall Drug. We must have seen hundreds of signs for it. We're going to backtrack Friday and go there and to the Badlands.

We lunch camped at a rest area that was actually open.

We left the camper at the campground and headed for Mt. Rushmore. If you look to the right you can just see Mt. Rushmore as we top the hill.

People told us to take the shuttles to Mt. Rushmore because the parking was bad. We didn't find that at all. There was plenty of parking and they had oversized ones for trucks and RV's. $8 to park, and no admission fee.

This is what I wanted to see. Did you know that 90% of the carving was done with dynamite? They had an expert come in that knew just how much dynamite to use to blow away the right amount of rock and then did the finishing work with drills and chisels.

Debbie took a nice picture of the Black Hills on the way back. They don't look black to us but they're their hills so they can name them whatever they want I guess.

A nice look at the 10% grade coming down from Mt Rushmore. Stopped at a Safeway grocery store to stock up on some more stuff and headed home.