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.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's original vision for the monument was meant to be far grander, more intricate and daringly ambitious than just the four iconic heads that exist today. In 1923, South ...

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.