High in the Black Hills of South Dakota, colossal faces stare out across the ages—silent, majestic, and controversial. The ...

Try these five easy day trips from Rapid City, South Dakota. Discover wildlife, cross-country ski trails, old mine towns, and more.

(Some of the area in which Rushmore stands was eventually purchased by the state of South Dakota and developed as Custer State Park; the rest was part of the Black Hills National Forest.) ...

Long before recorded time, the area now occupied by such landmarks as Bear Butte, the Devil’s Tower in Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota was covered again and again by vast ancient seas.