7/3/09 - Fireworks @ Mount Rushmore

Since 1998, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society has sponsored one of the largest fireworks displays in the nation on July 3rd. The 20-30 minute fireworks display is choreographed to music and set off atop the faces at Mount Rushmore. Over 30,000 people crowd into the park to spend their day at Mount Rushmore and view the fireworks. We wanted to get into the parking lot at Rushmore with the motorhome and were advised we needed to be in line by 6:30 AM to hopefully get allowed into the park. We got up at 4:30, made the 30 minute trip to Keystone and the first picture is what was already ahead of us.....vehicles were backed up 2 miles from the park entrance down to the town of Keystone.

In Keystone.

Line up the mountain in front of us!

After we got started up this was looking down at the line behind us.