Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Amateur film of a family vacation circa 1940s showing the Badlands, Black Hills, and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

An effort to keep helicopter tours over Mount Rushmore and Badlands National Park has been axed by a federal court.

With Mount Rushmore as a backdrop, President Dwight Eisenhower addressed the South Dakota Young Republicans League on June 11, 1953.

In this Dakota Life story from 2006, SDPB caught up with the crew that was cleaning and preserving Mount Rushmore for future generations.

South Dakota National Guard soldiers used a Blackhawk helicopter to help the National Park Service. But it wasn't a military exercise.

A tradition continues this year at Mount Rushmore. We learn about experiencing Easter and the sun's early rays at South Dakota's most famous monument.

The South Dakota Historical Society profiles the sculpture of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum.

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial saw another solid year of tourism numbers.

The National Park Service is prohibiting helicopter tours over both the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Badlands National Park.

Excerpts from the 1992 documentary "The Men Who Made Rushmore" combine film shot during the carving of Mount Rushmore with interviews of workers fifty years after the project came to an end.