back to USA map TRANSLATE 16. From Spearfish we reached the "Mount Rushmore National Monument" in one hour. A remembrance of 5,2 square kilometers at Black Hills in South Dakota. The centre are colossal busts which show four amarican persidents chiseled into a granite rock at a hight of 1707 Metern: "George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln".

Mount Rushmore (Photo by Gerhard Lang 23.9.2000)

We continued our trip over the Interstate 90 to Wyoming where we visited the strange formed rock "Devils Tower". The rock offered the scenery of Steven Spielberg's film version "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" with Richard Dreyfuss by leding part, where landed Aliens at the mountain.

Legend of Devils Tower

move on:   1.San Francisco  2.Bodega Bay  3.Redwoods  4.Oregons Küste  5.Astoria  6.Seattle  7.8.9.10.11.12.13. Canada  14.Montana  15.South Dakota  16.Mount Rushmore  17.Yellowstone  18.Grand Teton  19.Salt Lake City  20.Zion N.P.  21.Las Vegas  22.Los Angeles

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