We started the day on a grand scale, Mt Rushmore. It's well done, a short queue to get into the parking and a simple $11 annual parking fee was all it took. The whole place is well run and the carvings are impressive. Leaving there we set off for the Badlands National Park. Our GPS was a bit cantankerous trying to take us around in circles but we worked it out once we stopped for a park map from the wrong entrance it took us to. Initially it's quite a few miles ...

Our last day in the area so we headed straight for the park this morning to check out the roads we'd not yet investigated. It's Saturday, close to the end of school holidays for some states and beautiful weather. All that adds up to a park chock full of people. We tried to get a park near Bear Lake to no avail so went instead to Sprague Lake. There were a lot of people fly fishing in a small lagoon which looked to be only a couple of inches deep, very strange lol...