We didn't actually stop to see Mt.Rushmore, but we saw it a bunch of times regardless. We drove the Iron Mountain Highway (the 16A), which had a number of one-lane tunnels with a view:
Can you see the teeny tiny faces of some presidents?
There was a fun stretch of road that had a pigtail bridge, which is a spiral road built in 1932. It was a bit hard to photograph, but it was entertaining to drive!
I also took a photo of this bit of road, which Luke called 'car singletrack'.
I actually did take a couple of photos of Mt.Rushmore, from afar.
As we first started driving up the Iron Mountain Road, a crazy bunch of tractors came driving down. There were probably about 50 of them. It was pretty adorable.
It was another hot day, but Luke found me a lake to swim in! It was Horse Thief Lake and it was perfect. It has lots of easy ways to access the water for swimming and it also has cliff diving. I haven't cliff dived before, and starting with a 25 ft jump didn't seem like the way to start, so I didn't partake. Maybe next time!
The cliff diving rock
My safe dock jump
We also camped at a free campground just down the road from the lake--it's at a popular rock climbing area called Wrinkled Rock.
There was a thunder storm over night which cooled the temperatures off a bit for the next day. We still had a morning swim (couldn't resist another dip at Horse Thief Lake!) and went for a bike ride on Storm Mountain. It was a super fun ride and everything smells of sage...you can't beat that.
We climbed back in the van and headed to Montana.
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