又是一年的美国劳动节，一天的公共假期，这次我们计划了Source Dacota，我们开车大根需要六七个小时，因为山上有美国四位总统的雕像，所以华人一般都叫它总统山，按现在流行的话说，这也是美国的形象工程，但这个形象工程做的不错，不着人烦。门票免费，但收十一元的停车费，这个停车费一年内有效，国家公园的年卡不好使，还是很厚道的。
Wiki上是这样介绍的。
[quote]Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore, a batholith in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927-1941 with the help of his son, Lincoln Borglum. Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The memorial park covers 1,278.45 acres (2.00 sq mi; 5.17 km2) and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.
South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. Robinson's initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles because of the poor quality of the granite and strong opposition from Native American groups. They settled on Mount Rushmore, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Robinson wanted it to feature American West heroes like Lewis and Clark, Red Cloud, and Buffalo Bill Cody, but Borglum decided the sculpture should have broader appeal and chose the four presidents.
After securing federal funding through the enthusiastic sponsorship of "Mount Rushmore's great political patron" U.S. Senator Peter Norbeck, construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took over as leader of the construction project. Each president was originally to be depicted from head to waist. Lack of funding forced construction to end in late October 1941.
Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of the United States, and it has appeared in works of fiction, as well as being discussed or depicted in other popular works. It attracts over two million visitors annually.
拉什莫尔山国家纪念公园（Mount Rushmore National Memorial），或译为若虚莫山，俗稱美國總統公園、美國總統山、总统雕像山，是一座座落于美國南达科他州基斯通附近的美利坚合众国总统纪念馆（United States Presidential Memorial）。公园内有四座高达60英尺（约合18米）的美国歷史上著名的前总统头像，他们分别是华盛顿、杰斐逊、老罗斯福和林肯，这四位总统被认为是美國最偉大的總統，代表了美国建国130年来的历史。整个公园占地面积1278英亩（5.17平方公里），最高处海拔为5725 英尺 （1745 米）。公园由美国内政部下属的一个分局——美國國家公園管理局进行管理，每年能吸引大约两百万游客前来观光旅游。
1885年，美国纽约的著名律师查尔斯·E·拉什莫尔（Charles E. Rushmore）将其在南达科他州布拉克山（Black Hills）所拥有的矿山附近的一座花岗岩山以其姓氏命名为“拉什莫尔山”，这就是拉什莫尔山名字的来由。数十年后拉什莫尔山国家纪念公园的建造计划正式启动后，拉什莫尔本人还曾捐助了5000美元。在拉什莫尔山上建造雕塑初衷是为了吸引更多的人们前来布拉克山地区旅游，然而这个建造计划却引发了美国国会和时任总统卡尔文·柯立芝之间旷日持久的争论。最终，建造计划获得了国会的批准。整个工程的建设于1927年开始，并于1941年宣告完成。
拉什莫尔山与空军一号一样，俨然成为了美国总统的象征。图为空军一号正在飞越拉什莫尔山。时至今日，拉什莫尔山不仅成为了一个世界级的旅游胜地，还成为了美国文化中美国总统的象征。同时，在当代流行文化的影响之下，拉什莫尔山也衍生出了许多其他含义。
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没看到山之前，只看照片确实感觉不出来其雄伟，但真的来到面前后，真的很雄伟。
