The Park Service records over 2.6 million annual visitors to Rushmore, including tourists to Borglum's sculpting studio, a visitors' center, and a walking trail.

After touring the Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center, visit the Sculptor’s Studio (open seasonally) to see the 1/12 th scale model of Mount Rushmore as Gutzon Borglum originally envisioned the monument.

Mary Montgomery Borglum was born on November 21, 1874 in the city of Marash in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey. Her parents were missionaries who lived in Anatolia to the end of their lives.