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//**__MT. RUSHMORE NATIONAL PARK__**// **//Park Profile //** 1. Pennington County, South Dakota 2. 1,278.45 acres 3. North West United States 4. About 2,800,000 visitors per year 5. Climate: January and February are the coldest months during the winter. Daytime temperatures are in about the 30's. However during windy conditions temperature can occur warming the area into the 50's and 60's. March and April is usually the snowy season. March is known to be the snowiest month of the year. Normal temperatures are in the high 40's and low 30's. The average temperatures in April are in the 50's with lows in the 30's. May and June are mild with some thunderstorms in the afternoon. The temperature is in the 60's to 70's for highs and 40's for the lows. July and August are the warmest months the temperature can rise into the 90's. September and October temperatures begin to cool in the 60's and 70's lows can drop into the 40's. November and December are the beginning winter months with temperatures in the 30's to 40's. 6. Most popular sites 1. Mt Rushmore: Tour goes from Mt Rushmore to Custer State Park then ends at The Crazy Horse Memorial. This tour also includes a ride on the 1880 train. 2. Chuckwagon Dinner and Western Music Show at Circle B Ranch: During dinner you will enjoy classic cowboy food including BBQ chicken and foil wrapped potatoes. After dinner, a show begins with classic country music from various artists. If you would like to spend the day, there are several activities including model calf roping, gold panning, miniature animal petting corral, and trail rides. 3. Big Thunder Gold Mine: you and your family will tour the original gold mine. You can also try panning for gold with the traditional tools. The best part is you are guaranteed to find gold when you try gold panning in the nearby stream.

​HISTORY: June 10 1933 Mt Rushmore became a National Park. Gutzon Borglum, his son James Lincoln Borglum actually took over to do the carvings with their workers. Doane Robinson had the idea to make the monuments, and the faces.

WEATHER: In the city the farthest you could see would be between 15-20 miles on a clear day. At Mount Rushmore you can see 40 miles or more out onto the plains and you would smell the fresh, crisp, clean air of nature. There are factors though that could change that view in the future. Natural things like fault movement, fire and rivers can cause changes. Also outside influences can have effects for example dust, pollution, light and noise that come to Mount Rushmore from the wind or with the weather, change the local environment. PLANTS: Wildflowers have formed very good and sweet smells to attract pollinators. However other plants smell sour or bad to attract different pollinators. Different trees and grasses have distinct smells too. Smell can help you find new and amazing things. You can find plants from the north, south, east and west growing in the Black Hills. The Ponderosa pine is a tree that grows commonly in the western United States. With your sense of smell you can definetly find these trees, they have a sweet vanilla and butterscotch smell that is just warming. When you fing a tall pine tree with reddish bark, you have found the Ponderosa. ANIMALS:Rocky Mountain Goats are very skillful climbers that live in the craggy granite core of the Black Hills. Mountain goats are not native from the Black Hills. The population can be traced back to six goats, that were a gift to Custer State Park by Canada in 1924, that escaped from their pens and found their new homes in the granite peaks. There are more than 200 mountain goats in the area now. NATURAL LAND FEATURES: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is carved in the core of the Black Hills. Unfortunatly there are no caves in the Memorial, however there is a circle of limestone around the Black Hills. This limestone layer was put down at the bottom of an inland arm of the sea that covered the area around the Black Hills 65 million years ago. In this limestone circle there is several caves, two of which are National Park Service sites, and Jewel Cave National Monument.
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​ ​RECREATIONAL ACTIVITES: ​ 1 . Chuckwagon Dinner and Western Music Show at Circle B Ranch: During dinner you will enjoy classic cowboy food including BBQ chicken and foil wrapped potatoes. After dinner, a show begins with classic country music from various artists. If you would like to spend the day, there are several activities including model calf roping, gold panning, miniature animal petting corral, and trail rides. 2. Big Thunder Gold Mine: you and your family will tour the original gold mine. You can also try panning for gold with the traditional tools. The best part is you are guaranteed to find gold when you try gold panning in the nearby stream <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">.

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