crazy horse memorial monument | south dakota

"My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes, too."

These are the words Chief Henry Standing Bear wrote to sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski in 1939 urging him to visit the Black Hills and carve a mountain sculpture honoring American Indians.

Fifty-five years after Ziolkowski began carving Crazy Horse Memorial, his family continues the dream and work progresses on the world's largest mountain sculpture. When finished, Crazy Horse will stand 641 feet long and 563 feet high.

I think this helps put it into scale!

How it will look once completed. As your driving north on US-16 E, remember to look to your right! It's awe-inspiring even now, unfinished. 

I was lucky enough to be at Crazy Horse on Sept. 5 for their biannual "night blast", which celebrates what would have been the 102nd birthday of Korczak Ziolkowski, the original sculptor of the Crazy Horse mountain carving. Sept. 5 also commemorates the death of Crazy Horse! 
It was SUPER windy and cold. Looks like Lulu is about to fly away.