Mount Rushmore, SD and Devils Tower, WY

Tourism is South Dakota's second-largest industry, and Mount Rushmore is the state's top tourist attraction.  The memorial hosts nearly three million visitors a year.  The site attracts many visitors over the week of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.   

The monument has four 60 foot sculptures of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.   The mountain is named after a New York City Attorney (on a prospecting expedition), Charles E. Rushmore.

One is constantly warned to be "bear aware" in this area of the country!

Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous of the 50 United States.  Cheyenne is the capital and the state mammal is the Bison.  The state nickname is The Cowboy State.

Devils Tower - an hour drive from Spearfish, SD (Spearfish is 15 mins away from Sturgis).

Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming.  It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet above sea level. 

Max playing with a tennis ball in the dog park in Spearfish, SD