![]() ![]() ![]() Leaving Mt Rushmore, backtrack slightly to Keystone (fudge!) and prepare for the ride of your life on the Iron Mountain Road (Hwy 16A). Gape at the 60ft-tall busts carved into the side of the granite mountain and then head down the Presidential Trail, which passes right below the monument for some fine nostril views. Inside Mt Rushmore National Memorial, skip the shops, cafe and main museum, and head straight for the main event. But keep going as there are three more presidents waiting. Head south on US 16 and once you're just past the tourist town of Keystone (stop here for fudge!), be ready for your first sight of George Washington, looming large in the distance. ![]() Learn all about Deadwood's better-than-fiction past in the Adams Museum. You can wander the streets where Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok and other characters lived – and died – in ways not much different from the TV show. Thanks to casino money, this 1870s gold rush town has been both saved and preserved in a not-overly restored kind of way. Head west to Deadwood, which was already famous when the HBO TV series made it a legend. The Drive: Heading west, exit I-90 at Sturgis (exit 30), a small town that comes alive with an eardrum-busting roar every August for the world's largest motorcycle rally, but is otherwise mostly a setting for gaudy billboards with scantily clad women hawking motorcycles and casinos. You'll also get to navigate the twisting road through Spearfish Canyon, where rushing water plunges over granite boulders amid towering trees. The perfect drive for anyone cruising I-90, this looping route takes you to legendary Deadwood, one of the Old West's most iconic towns. ![]()
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