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Overview
About Information Center
Why stop
- Free standard and wide manual wheelchairs are available to borrow.
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Where it is
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Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Mount Rushmore Tour Guide
Your drive to Information Center, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Mount Rushmore National Memorial. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Grand View Terrace and the Visitor Complex0:00 / 0:34
“You're approaching the memorial visitor complex and the walk to Grand View Terrace. For the classic photo of all four faces, keep some granite below the portraits in frame to show their scale.”
Plays as you drive up to Information Center in the Parkwolf Mount Rushmore Tour Guide.
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“We recently toured Badlands, Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore and more! We learned so much from this app as we toured each of these sites. The audio tours are worth the money.”
Guide
More about Information Center
Start with a mapThis is a small, staffed information stop on the walk from the parking structure to the Mount…
This is a small, staffed information stop on the walk from the parking structure to the Mount Rushmore sculpture. It is the first building on the right after the entrance columns, across from the main public restrooms. Pick up a map or ask about the memorial and local area before heading on.
Handy arrival servicesJunior Ranger booklets and a bottle-filling station make it useful to pause here.
Junior Ranger booklets and a bottle-filling station make it useful to pause here. The center is wheelchair accessible, and free standard and wide manual wheelchairs are available inside on a first-come, first-served basis. Braille brochures are available here or at the Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center.
A small bookshop en routeA small bookstore offers souvenirs.
A small bookstore offers souvenirs. The Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center is a separate stop nearer the plaza, with exhibits and a theater.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Mount Rushmore
88 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
44 sightingsMule DeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
20 sightingsWhite-tailed DeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
14 sightingsTurkey VultureMost seen around 1 PMSighting map
32 sightingsMarmotMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
11 sightingsBrook TroutMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Mount Rushmore. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
