Cool facts about Mount Rushmore
Posted on Aug 16, 2025 / Travel
- The granite used for Mount Rushmore is over 1.6 billion years old.
- The entire sculpture took 14 years to complete, from 1927 to 1941.
- The original plan included full-body statues, but only the heads were finished.
- Over 400 workers, including miners and sculptors, worked on the monument.
- The faces are visible from up to 20 miles away on a clear day.
- The monument was constructed using dynamite for 90% of the rock removal.
- Gutzon Borglum also worked on Stone Mountain in Georgia.
- Mount Rushmore is visited by over 2 million people every year.
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