• Mount Rushmore, Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, Lincoln framed by ponderosa pine trees under a bright blue sky.

    Mount Rushmore

    National Memorial South Dakota

2009 Press Releases

September, 2009
09/10 Memorial Remembers September 11
09/10 FONSI Signed for Backcountry Trail
09/09 Schedule for Laser Scanning

July, 2009
07/08 Unauthorized Greenpeace Demonstration at Memorial
07/03 Memorial Partners for 3D Scanning

May, 2009
05/04 Memorial Announces Summer Hours

April, 2009
04/29 Navnit Singh Joins Rushmore Team
04/28 Free Summer Sculpture Workshops Announced
04/07 Don Hart Named New Chief Ranger

January, 2009
01/16 Screening of Inauguration Ceremony at Mount Rushmore
01/12 Memorial Seeks Comments on Account Trail Proposal

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Approximately 400 different people worked at Mount Rushmore during the carving process from October 1927 to October 1941. Although this work was dangerous, no lives were lost during the sculpting of the mountain.