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Read about my trip to Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota, USA. It's a memorial to a native American, trying to keep his lands and way of life. | Crazy Horse Native American | Crazy Horse Monument | Crazy Horse Chief | Crazy Horse Memorial | Crazy Horse crazyhorse | Crazy Horse South Dakota | Crazy Horse Indian

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Everything you need to know about visiting Crazy Horse Memorial South Dakota. From things to do at Crazy House Monument to the seeing Chief Crazy Horse monument up close and taking part in the Crazy Horse Volksmarch. Get all our tips for visiting Crazy Horse in the Blackhills of South Dakota.

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People looking up at the face of the Crazy Horse carving during the Volksmarch event

It’s the most common question asked by visitors and even locals when it comes to the world’s largest mountain carving in progress. The carving of Crazy Horse Memorial® started 75 years ago in the Black Hills and work continues to this day. There are numerous reasons for the slow evolution if this mountain carving and to understand why the process is taking so long you need to know each part of the equation.

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two men are climbing up the side of a mountain with a giant head on it

We all know about Mount Rushmore and the carvings of the US presidents. But did you know there is another mountain carving in South Dakota? The Crazy Horse Memorial is still being built! via CBS

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people are standing on the side of a mountain with a giant head in front of them

It is not every day that you can hike to the top of a 563-foot tall granite carving honoring an American legend. Actually, you can only do this hike a few days a year when the active construction on Crazy Horse Memorial is suspended so that the public can get a close look. The hike passes through forests and fields below the work-in-progress memorial and follows the same road used by construction vehicles up to the arm of the monument where you can walk out and stand below the 8-story

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Located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Crazy Horse Memorial is the world’s largest mountain carving. Designed as a memorial to Native American heroes, the sculpture depicts Crazy Horse, a 19th century Lakota leader, astride a horse.

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